PM Center - News Releases

News Releases

Fourth Air Quality Criteria Document - Volume 1 and Volume 2 (Please be patient. These are enormous documents, and will take a while to download.), Chapter 7 Toxicology, Chapter 8 Epidemiology, Appendix 7a Rat to Human Dose Exptrapolation, Appendix 7b Ambient Bioaerosols, and Appendix 8a and 8b Summary Tables for Short Term PM Exposure-Mortality and PM Morbidity-Mortality Studies
2002 Agricultural Burning Study in Pullman Public Meetings to Present Research Results
NW Air Summit, June 2003 web page
EPA releases fourth external review draft of PM Criteria document.
California amends PM standards on June 5, 2003 in the Review of the Ambient Air Quality Standards for Particulate Matter and Sulfates; see the following website: http://www.arb.ca.gov/research/aaqs/std-rs/std-rs.htm
United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit March 26, 2001 NAAQS decision regarding No. 97-1440, American Trucking Associations, Inc., et al., Petitioners v. Environmental Protection Agency
PM Center research in collaboration with the CAMP childhood asthma study was highlighted in the local press and on KPLU, a local NPR affiliate. This research, published in Environmental Health Perspectives, showed an association between asthma symptoms and the levels of particulates and carbon monoxide.
The Dept of Environmental Health Continuing Education series included a day (May 16) on PM Exposure Assessment given by Center members.
US Supreme Court upholds NAAQS: Court Opinion (PDF)
The third external review draft of PM Criteria document has been superceded by the fourth external review draft (see above).
New York Times discusses particulate air pollution and the new draft of the Criteria Document.
The Center held a workshop on the public health implications of smoke from wildfires and related events such as prescribed burning of forests, June 5 & 6
Draft of EPA staff paper for new PM standards is released (their fact sheet explains why you should care)

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