Posted on 11/26/2014 6:53:24 AM PST by reaganaut1
Ah yes, the ole 4 branches of gov’t;
Executive
Legislative
Judicial
Regulatory
Parts per BILLION...barely at detectable levels. So what would be the consequences of having say 72 parts per billion rather than 68 parts per billion? The difference between these levels are well within measuring error. Billions in higher costs for what possible benefit?
I seem to recall that being a background level on a hot sunny day in some environments.
If so, it is almost unachievable.
Is that correct?
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Everyone knows that global warming affects weather and weather causes lightning. Since lightning causes ozone, we have to shut down the coal industry. There.
The EPA site describing the proposed rule and allowing for public comment is
http://www.epa.gov/air/ozonepollution/actions.html#nov2014 .
Anyone who was alive before the late 70s knows what real smog was like. In most of the US, we don’t have anything resembling smog. Even in the places we do, it is usually caused by local conditions, mountain valleys, etc.
It’s really frustrating to live in an ozone hotbed because it comes off Lake Michigan from naturally occurring processes certain times of the year.
Back when factories belched smoke and cars had no emissions controls, there was significant benefit to these rules, but tightening them at this point has no real benefit.
We’ll be paying billions to make reductions within the level of sampling error.
...and we take 5 parts per billion out while China is belching thousands of times that every day.
Very correct...I work in the industry of air quality monitoring. As the EPA continues to lower the ozone standard the standard gets closer to typical background levels that can be in the 50-60 ppb range. The environment has to be well mixed to achieve this background level. Lowering the standard will make it nearly impossible to make attainment for many areas across the nation.
Probably local cost but worldwide benefit calculation, which is bogus.
Yes it sound like a new gate way for new taxes fees and fines.
This is actually a means of killing economic activity because vegetation, and particularly trees, emit sufficient VOC (volatile organic compounds) to produce enough ozone to exceed the standard.
This is the problem with measuring technology. We’re at zero.
We really have clean air in this country, for various reasons. My city (Pittsburgh) was very dirty decades ago. They cleaned it up due to regulations, and losing industry. the EPA should go to China.
I miss those days.
The stratospheric ozone layer is completely different than surface level ozone pollution...
Actually...my ozone analyzers reliably measure down to single digit ppbs. Once we start talking ppts...that is a different subject.
time to start a bonfire in the back using a cup of kerosene and an old tire to get er going?
I estimate that providing me with a lifetime, tax free income of $750,000 per year would provide the public over 1 trillion dollars in public health benefits over the rest of my lifetime. Where do I go to enact such legislation?
Those benefits would be to the parasites that work for these government agencies.
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