Advocacy groups push back against EPA’s plan to reconsider environmental protections March 24, 2025

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[Mark Vossler, MD, PSR Board President] also called the EPA’s monitoring program, technical assistance and pricing programs on excess methane highly effective as well as the “gold standard” for how pollutants should be regulated, and he strongly urged EPA to continue them.
“The health benefits of reducing this potent greenhouse gas in the near term are great,” he said. “We can’t afford to have more heat waves, more extreme weather events, and this is very cost effective.”
Further, Vossler said that methane creates ground-level ozone.
“Ground-level ozone is a potent pollutant, increasing the risk of asthma in kids and increasing the risk of COPD exacerbations and heart attack and strokes in adults,” he said. “This is something that’s actually easy to correct in the near term.”