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handle is hein.amenin/aeiaaog0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 91I m z -4 0 The EPA's proposed standards are based more on whim than on science. The real benefits will he slight at best; more probably, they will make more of us ill and even kill some of us off They will cost the nation a fortune. And not incidentally, they will extend the EPA'S bureaucratic tentacles into new areas that a few years ago would have been unthinkable. Beyond the issues ofscience and costs, the debate over the EPA's proposed standards raises a much larger question: What does a regulatory bureaucracy do when it starts to run out ofnew things to regulate?And what do activist 0 groups that support that bureaucracy do when they've alo accomplished their stated goal? The answer, it appears, is somehow to fabricate new hazards that nobody before knew existed, including the regulators and the activist groups themselves. -From the Preface Call it the November Surprise. Three weeks after President Clinton secured his second term, the Environmental Protection Agency unveiled proposals for sweeping new air M pollution standards that Industry Week has called the most explosive and perhaps most costly regulations the EPA has ever proposed. In Polluted Science, Michael Fumento shows that the myriad studies the EPA claims to rely on have been produced by a handful of environmental activist researchers and that much of the scientific community is aghast at what the agency passes off as science. In a text that is scholarly and heavily referenced, yet highly readable, Fumento devastates the claim that studies linking particles with illness and death are both con- sistent and robust. As for ozone, while it can cause health problems at current levels, it affects so few people that the proposed actions do not begin to justify their costs. Michael Fumento is a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research. He is the author of Science under Siege (1993), The Myth ofHeterosexual AIDS (1990, rev. ed. 1993), and The Fat of the Land (September 1997), and he writes frequently on science and health issues for leading national newspapers and magazines. ISBN 084474041-1 51695 9 7808 44 740416 AEI

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