Carol Browner's legacy: PM2.5 - Environmental Science & Technology

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rotecting the public’s health is a grave responsibility that probably keeps administrators and health professionals awake at night. Lives lie in the balance. So it must have been with considerable courage but also some trepidation that Carol Browner, former U.S. EPA administrator, decided in 1997 to regulate air pollution of fine particulate matter