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Clean air, dirty tricks.(State of the Scare)(Book Review)
Joel Schwartz, "State of the Scare," Tech Central Station, May 3, 2005 (techcentralstation.com)
Every year, the American Lung Association (ALA) issues a State of the Mr report warning Americans that air quality is harming their health. Every year, AEI scholar Joel Schwartz issues his own health warning about the poor quality of the ALA's report. This year is no different.
Schwartz begins by laying out a few incontrovertible facts about air quality: "Days exceeding the EPA's tough new eight-hour ozone standard dropped more than 50 percent nationwide between 2003 and 2004.... Levels of fine particulates (PM2.5) are also at record lows.... Thirty-three percent of U.S. monitoring locations violated federal PM2.5 standards in 2001, but only 15 percent as of the end of 2004."
These and other bits of good news are completely left out of the ALA report. Air quality improvements are glossed over, and air pollution levels are exaggerated. Schwartz debunks the ALA's claim that 152 million Americans live in areas that violate federal pollution ...
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...more stringent ozone and PM standards the EPA adopted in 1997. In 1980, about 75 percent...pollution will continue to decline. The EPA tightened automobile emission standards...emissions will also continue to fall under the EPA's Clean Air Interstate Rule, which will...
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...of Joel/Cal-Made, succeeding Joel Schwartz, who has resigned: Ben Schwartz, chairman and Joel Schwartz' father, has also left the firm...1960s was Sportsman of California. Joel Schwartz joined the company in August 1968...
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- Press release article from: Business Wire March 21, 2005 700+ words
ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Joel Schwartz, CLU, ChFC, vice president...financial services providers. "Joel Schwartz is one of the nation's most...High-resolution photos of Joel Schwartz, Alan Levitz, and Tom Burns...
- Joel Schwartz Named President of EMC's Data General Division.
- Press release article from: Business Wire April 6, 2000 700+ words
...software and services, today announced the appointment of Joel Schwartz as President of its Data General division, reporting to...for his hard work and wish him well in his new endeavor." Joel Schwartz said, "I'm excited about this opportunity to execute...
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- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Borowski, Neill A. August 1, 2001 700+ words
...that is, `let the reader beware,'" David Murray, Joel Schwartz and S. Robert Lichter advise in their book "It Ain't...scientific and social research in public policy debate." Joel Schwartz is senior adjunct fellow at the Hudson Institute, and S...
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- Press release article from: PR Newswire January 4, 1993 700+ words
RUTHERFORD, N.J., Jan. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Nationally recognized broadcast executive Joel Schwartz has been named president and general manager of Shadow Broadcast Services San Francisco/San Jose. In announcing the appointment...
- Doctors Joel Schwartz and Gerald Shklar of the Harvard University Department of...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire July 10, 1986 700+ words
NEW YORK, July 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Doctors Joel Schwartz and Gerald Shklar of the Harvard University Department of Oral Pathology recently announced the results of their research on the...
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