{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.carper.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/pressreleases?ContentRecord_id=372eeaeb-947f-43b7-8d4f-acd64f48f16d", "Carper Applauds Historic New Ozone Pollution Standards to Protect Public Health", "2014-11-26", "2014", "2014-11", "Democrat", "House", "DE", "Thomas Carper", "C000174", "www.carper.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "\u201cToday\u2019s announcement is purely a statement of fact \u2013 to protect our health, we need less ozone pollution in the air,\u201d Senator says\r\nWASHINGTON \u2013\u00a0Today, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.) applauded the Environmental Protection Agency\u2019s (EPA) announcement that it will implement stricter standards to curb ozone pollution that poses a serious threat to public health and has been linked to asthma, heart disease and premature death.\u00a0The Senator has been a long time champion of efforts to reduce dangerous emissions that contribute to ozone pollution.\r\n\u201cAs a parent, I\u2019ve spent a lot of time worrying about my own children\u2019s health, but as a U.S. Senator, I worry about every child\u2019s health. That\u2019s why I\u2019ve worked so hard with my colleagues \u2013 Democrats and Republicans alike \u2013 to make sure that all our children have clean air that's safe to breathe. We have made remarkable progress in cleaning up harmful air pollution, but \u2013 if truth be told \u2013 we still have a long way to go in many parts of America.\r\n\u201cAs medical science\u00a0evolves,\u00a0so too does our understanding of \u2018healthy air.\u2019 For decades, we have known that ozone pollution caused by dirty power plants, automobiles, and other sources is linked to serious health problems like asthma, strokes, heart attacks, and even early deaths. We have also known that ozone pollution is especially dangerous for our children. Parents who have watched their kids with asthma suffer on high ozone days know this better than anyone. Our understanding of the extent to which ozone pollution in the air makes us sick, however, has changed over the years as our research has become more\u00a0advanced.\r\n\u201cThrough the Clean Air Act, Congress required the EPA to base air quality and public health standards on the best science available and to review these benchmarks every five years. After reviewing more than a thousand scientific studies, the EPA announced today that our current ozone health standards are too weak\u00a0and no longer adequately protect our health.\u00a0Despite what many may say, today\u2019s announcement is purely a statement of fact \u2013 to protect our health, we need less ozone pollution. I urge the EPA\u2019s Administrator to move quickly to finalize plans for the new ozone air quality standards so our nation can finally move forward in making the pollution reductions we need to achieve cleaner, healthier air.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\r\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.carper.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/pressreleases?ContentRecord_id=372eeaeb-947f-43b7-8d4f-acd64f48f16d"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.3176100328564644, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}