Carlton Carroll | 202.682.8114 | carrollc@api.org
WASHINGTON, August 23, 2011 – Howard Feldman, API director of regulatory and scientific affairs, gave a press briefing to reporter calling on EPA to reconsider its discretionary, out of cycle new ozone NAAQS proposal.
"For the sake of American workers and for the American economy, we again urge the administration and the EPA to take a step back – It is not too late," Feldman said. This review is strictly discretionary, not required by statute or the court. And the harm it could cause to the economy and to jobs is potentially enormous."
Feldman spoke to reporters ahead of his testimony at an EPA hearing Thursday on the so‐called NOx and SOx secondary standards. He said that EPA's administrator set an important precedent when she rejected a staff recommendation to establish these secondary air quality standards.
"For the sake of our economy and jobs, the administrator should exercise the same sound policy judgment on the ozone standards now under review at the White House," Feldman said.
Click here for a copy of Feldman's opening remarks, as prepared for delivery.
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