Accountability: Measuring the Effect and Effectiveness of the Regulation of Air Quality

4/19/01


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If you visit American city, You will find it very pretty; just two things of which you must beware: don't drink the water and don’t breathe the air. Tom Lehrer, lyrics from Pollution Found in Our Global Environment by A. Nadakavukaren, 4th edition, 1995.

Accountability: Measuring the Effect and Effectiveness of the Regulation of Air Quality

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Objective

To discuss the interplay of politics, values and science in the setting of air quality standards and the assessment of their effectiveness.

Background

Policy as a product of:

Policy as the Interaction of:

Types of Pollutants

Sources of Air Pollution

The Size of Particles

Cuurent NAAQS-Primary Stds for Ozone and PM

History

Seneca 61 AD

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Regulatory Process

Aspects of Regulation

Aspect of Regulations-continued

Key Papers

Early Papers

Re-analysis Precipitators

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Values

Values Issues

Data Sharing Fences

Statistics/Science

New Statistical Methodology

Statistical Issues

Hill Criteria for Causality

Science/Values/Politics

Re-analysis I

Re-Analysis II

Values

Shelby Amendment

Accountability

Accountability (HEI questions)

Regulatory Examples

How to Assess NAAQS?

Summary

Questions

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Dates-1

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