ABI Insight

Who's in Charge?

Author: Larry Fisher, Practice Director, Automotive, Energy and Emerging Technologies

Published: 12 Jul 2010

Even as the US Environmental Protection Agengy (EPA) continues to respond to the BP Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico by monitoring the air, water, and soil for chemical, ozone, and particulate contaminants, it has issued new standards for atmospheric emissions of sulfur dioxide (SO2) that it says will protect public health to the extent of “preventing 2,300 to 5,900 premature deaths and 54,000 asthma attacks a year.”

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