{"id":5790,"date":"2020-06-26T12:59:01","date_gmt":"2020-06-26T12:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/environment\/?p=5790"},"modified":"2020-09-10T13:02:15","modified_gmt":"2020-09-10T13:02:15","slug":"clinic-submits-comments-on-epas-review-of-the-national-ambient-air-quality-standards-naaqs-for-particulate-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/environment\/2020\/06\/26\/clinic-submits-comments-on-epas-review-of-the-national-ambient-air-quality-standards-naaqs-for-particulate-matter\/","title":{"rendered":"Clinic Submits Comments on EPA\u2019s Review of the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for Particulate Matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>June 26, 2020 \u2013 Today, the Clinic submitted comments on behalf of researchers at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Boston University School of Public Health on EPA\u2019s proposal to leave in place the current NAAQS for particulate matter.\u00a0 The proposal disregards the substantial evidence that fine particulate matter causes serious, adverse health effects at levels below the current NAAQS.\u00a0 The Clinic\u2019s comments emphasized the irony that even as EPA rushes through an erroneous decision resulting from a flawed process in the midst of the COVID-19 global pandemic, evidence is emerging that fine particulate matter pollution may be exacerbating the effects of that pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Click here to view the comments: <a href=\"http:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/environment\/files\/2020\/06\/EELPC-PM-NAAQS-Comments-FINAL.pdf\">Comments on Review of the National Ambient Air Quality Standards for Particulate Matter (Proposed Rule), 85 Fed. Reg. 24,094<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 26, 2020 \u2013 Today, the Clinic submitted comments on behalf of researchers at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":201,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clinic-publications","category-news","post-archive"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/environment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/environment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/environment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/environment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/201"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/environment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/environment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/environment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/environment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/environment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}