EPA Standards for ‘Hazardous Air Pollutants’ Are Stringent: Don’t Cherry-Pick the Data

EPA Standards for ‘Hazardous Air Pollutants’ Are Stringent: Don’t Cherry-Pick the Data
The EPA has a robust program to reduce emissions of industry "hazardous air pollutants." Environmentalists and journalists sometimes use cherry-picked data to suggest otherwise. Quartzla/pixabay.com
Richard Trzupek
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A casual observer would not know it, based on increasingly hysterical coverage of so-called toxic air pollutant emissions, but the United States has had a robust program to reduce these emissions and protect human health and the environment from their potential effects for a very long time.

Richard Trzupek
Richard Trzupek
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Rich Trzupek is a chemist, author and nationally recognized air quality expert. He lives in Lincoln, Nebraska.
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