House Members Query EPA on Proposed New Ozone Standards

Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), Energy and Power Subcommittee Chairman Ed Whitfield (R-KY), and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Cliff Stearns (R-FL) are pressing EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson for more information concerning the agency’s discretionary reconsideration of ambient air quality standards for ground-level ozone and its proposal to issue new standards. In a letter to the Administrator, the Members requested Jackson’s participation in future committee hearings that will examine the standards and their economic consequences and asks her office to provide written responses to a series of questions concerning the development of the proposed ozone standards. A copy of the letter can be found here.