The American Petroleum Institute (API), along with more than other 170 businesses and business groups that together employ millions of American workers, have sent a letter to President Obama urging him to stop the Environmental Protection Agency黑料社檚 (EPA) voluntary reconsideration of new National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for ground level ozone.
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In the letter the groups said: 黑料社榥ow is not the time to saddle our economy with the extraordinary costs associated with EPA黑料社檚 proposed national ozone standard,黑料社� while asking President Obama to 黑料社榙elay this discretionary, out of cycle ozone standard and wait until 2013 before determining whether a new standard is needed.黑料社�
Feldman cited a study by Manufacturing Alliance/MAPI showing that 7.3 million jobs could be lost by 2020 if EPA moves forward to a strict new ozone standard. He also cited a recent study by NERA Economic Consulting that concluded, 黑料社榥ot one of EPA黑料社檚 estimates of the benefits of reducing ozone to a tighter alternative ozone standard is as large as the costs of attaining that respective ozone standard.黑料社�