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Revised Ozone Standard Due by March 12, 2008 [1]

EPA is scheduled to announce by March 12, 2008, its final rule for a new ground-level ozone standard, last updated more than a decade ago.
SEJ Publication Types: 
TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat: 
Air [3]
Health [4]
Policy [5]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [6]
Visibility: 
Public [7]

Gulf War Illness: It's Real, Afflicts About 200K Vets, Says Panel [8]

As the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan drag on, new light has been shed on the environmental health impacts of the 1991 Gulf War. On Nov. 17, 2008, the Congressionally-mandated Research Advisory Committee on Gulf War Veterans' Illnesses released a major report which concluded that from 175,000 to 210,000 of the nearly 700,000 U.S. veterans of the first Gulf War suffer from Gulf War illness.
SEJ Publication Types: 
TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat: 
Chemicals [9]
Health [4]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [6]
Visibility: 
Public [7]

TOOLBOX: Covering the Health Effects of Climate Change [10]

How health may be affected; accusation that Bush administration drastically altered CDC testimony to the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on Oct. 23, 2007.
SEJ Publication Types: 
TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat: 
Climate Change [11]
Health [4]
Region: 
International [12]
Visibility: 
Public [7]

Labor Dept. Uses OMB To Aid Secret OSHA Midnight Deregulation [13]

The Bush White House is rushing through — secretly — a midnight regulation that would hobble the next administration's efforts to regulate workplace environmental risks.
SEJ Publication Types: 
WatchDog TipSheet [14]
Topics on the Beat: 
Health [4]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [6]
Visibility: 
Public [7]

New Science Clarifies NO2 Health Effects [16]

EPA reviews its health-based standard for NO2 as an air pollutant, and has issued a science assessment of health effects.

SEJ Publication Types: 
TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat: 
Air [3]
Health [4]
Pollution [17]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [6]
Visibility: 
Public [7]

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