The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently held hearings on its new proposed ozone standards. The existing standard of 75 parts per billion (ppb) for ground-level ozone, a primary component of ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

An international agreement to protect the ozone layer is expected to prevent 443 million cases of skin cancer and 63 million cataract cases for people born in the United States through the end of this ...

The global treaty that headed off destruction of earth's protective ozone layer has also prevented major disruption of global rainfall patterns, according to a new study in the Journal of Climate. The ...

An NRC committee will evaluate the scientific and technical bases of approaches used by EPA for estimating ozone mortality risk reduction and associated benefits of health-based standards over time.