Articles By Author Joel Schwartz
Articles by Joel Schwartz
07/11/2008 12:00 AM
This paper provides comments on the California Air Resources Board’s (CARB) draft report “Methodology for Estimating Premature Deaths Associated with Long-term ...(read more)
01/01/2008 12:00 AM
Editor’s note: This article is the third in a three-part series by Joel Schwartz regarding the American Lung Association’s State of the Air 2007 report, ...(read more)
10/01/2007 12:00 AM
This article is the second in a three-part series by Joel Schwartz addressing the American Lung Association's State of the Air 2007 report. Part I appeared ...(read more)
07/27/2007 12:00 AM
Growing plants absorb some of the carbon dioxide emitted by human burning of fossil
fuels for energy. However, according to a new study in the journal ...(read more)
07/01/2007 12:00 AM
Editor's note: This article is the first in a two-part series by Joel Schwartz regarding the American Lung Association's State of the Air 2007 report, released ...(read more)
05/01/2007 12:00 AM
(Chicago, Illinois - May 1, 2007) Today, the American Lung Association released its State of the Air 2007 report. The following comment on the report is ...(read more)
01/24/2007 12:00 AM
Dear Ms. Witherspoon:
I’m writing in reference to the presentation CARB Staff will give at the board meeting tomorrow on “Recent Scientific Findings ...(read more)
12/01/2006 12:00 AM
Most of what Americans “know” about air pollution is false. Polls show most Americans believe air pollution has been steady or rising during the last few ...(read more)
10/01/2006 12:00 AM
America's entrepreneurs and venture capitalists are passing up a chance to earn billions of dollars by investing in technologies to reduce California's ...(read more)
07/01/2006 12:00 AM
Air quality regulation is complicated. The Clean Air Act (CAA) is hundreds of pages long, and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has written thousands ...(read more)
06/01/2006 12:00 AM
"Smog is out of control in almost all of our major cities." The Sierra Club penned these words in November 2001 after the nation had achieved its two lowest ...(read more)
05/10/2006 12:00 AM
Americans spend tens of billions dollars each year on measures to reduce emissions of smog-forming pollutants from motor vehicles, power plants, and a host ...(read more)
05/03/2006 12:00 AM
05/01/2006 12:00 AM
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which is forcing Americans to spend billions of dollars per year to address ozone air quality, is actually ...(read more)
05/01/2006 12:00 AM
NOx, shorthand for the sum of NO2 + NO, is necessary for the formation of ozone (O3). Even when volatile organic compounds (VOC) are not present, ozone ...(read more)
04/17/2006 12:00 AM
EPA has proposed lowering the level of the National Ambient Air Quality Standard
(NAAQS) for PM2.5. Under EPA’s proposal, the 24-hour PM2.5 standard would ...(read more)
04/01/2006 12:00 AM
Rethinking America's Ozone Policy
In the first of a series of four articles, Joel Schwartz, an air quality scientist at the American Enterprise Institute, ...(read more)
02/01/2006 12:00 AM
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on December 21, 2005 proposed reducing allowable measured daily levels of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) ...(read more)
05/01/2005 12:00 AM
The staff of the California Air Resources Board (CARB) has proposed a stringent new eight-hour ozone standard for California. It would be the toughest in ...(read more)
02/01/2005 12:00 AM
In 2004, the United States reported the lowest ozone smog levels since states began measuring them in the 1970s. Based on preliminary data from around the ...(read more)
11/01/2004 12:00 AM
The success of cap-and-trade programs and other moves toward regulatory flexibility shows how little "experts" know about the best ways to control pollution.
As ...(read more)
09/01/2004 12:00 AM
According to the latest results from the Environmental Protection Agency's Toxics Release Inventory (TRI), made public on June 23, 2004, toxic releases ...(read more)
09/01/2004 12:00 AM
According to a statement issued to the press on June 29 by U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Mike Leavitt, reducing fine particulate ...(read more)
07/01/2004 12:00 AM
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