Political Quotes

“To boil all of that down, the gentleman is right, when we talk about the width of a human hair being 75 microns and we have been measuring PM10, or 10 microns, that is about one-seventh the width of a human hair. Now they are talking about going to one-fourth of one-seventh the size of a human hair. That tells us how crazy this is. They are talking about size alone. There are different kinds of particulate matter floating around. Some of it, as I said, is found in nature. We heard testimony in the Committee on Commerce, where they said if you live in an area like New Mexico where you have high alkaline soil that is blowing in the wind, you could have problems. What about if some of these particulate matters that are being ingested into the lungs are more toxic than others? This is not addressed at all in these new ambient air quality standards suggested by Ms. Browner at EPA and now endorsed by the President. What about a blend of different kinds of PM2.5? Does that cause more of a toxicological problem? We do not know because, as my distinguished colleague just pointed out, we do not have the studies.”