"In a directive signed on July 16, President Clinton
ended the sharp debate between the Environmental
Protection Agency and its critics in and outside the
administration. EPA got, with only minor exceptions,
the goals that it had originally proposed last
November. But it gave some ground in the timetables
for the standards and the process of achieving them.
The new standards do three things. They reduce
the permissible concentrations of ground-level ozone.
They continue the present rules for coarse particulate
matter in the air. And they set a new standard for fine
particulate matter—particles with a diameter of 2.5
microns (PM2.5). (...) Since it believes a
substantial death rate attaches to PM2.5, it may want to
consider taking action sooner than 2005."
Anderson, J.W.
New Air Quality
Standards Are Tighter but Compliance Is Distant
in: RESSOURCES, FALL 1997/ISSUE 129 Page 6
http://www.rff.org/Documents/Resources/Resources-129_Anderson.pdfIf EPA resisted to the new standard of PM2.5 in 1997: Did it fulfil at least the directive of the White House?
Well, the title of the report says everything: "Compliance is distant"
