Several members of a powerful science panel for the Environmental Protection Agency expressed doubt at a hearing Thursday about the long-established scientific consensus that air pollution can cause premature death.
The panel was meeting to consider recommendations that would fundamentally change how the agency analyzes the public health dangers posed by air pollution and could lead to weaker regulation of soot.
The recommendations concern how the EPA regulates microscopic soot known as particulate matter, which causes and exacerbates respiratory diseases such as asthma. Determining exactly how much particulate matter is safe to breathe requires complex analysis of an enormous — and growing — body of scientific literature.
Before the EPA disbanded it last year, a 20-person subcommittee called the Particulate Matter Review Panel was responsible for helping the agency decide how much air pollution is safe for Americans to breathe. With that group gone, only the seven-member Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee is left to make recommendations.
Photo: George Frey/Getty Images Caption: Smog fills Utah’s Salt Lake Valley in January 2017. Winter weather in the area often traps air pollution that is bad for public health.
In honor of Phantam’s 40th anniversary, The Phantasm Sphere Collection will be released this Halloween via Well Go USA Entertainment. An exact release date has not yet been set.
The limited edition box set contains all five films in the Phantasm franchise on Blu-ray, along with a full-scale replica of the killer sphere. There will be two variants - white and black - each featuring artwork by Aaron Lea.
Phantasm launched in 1979 from writer-director Don Coscarelli. It was
followed by Phantasm II (1988), Phantasm III: Lord of the Dead (1994),
Phantasm IV: Oblivion (1998), and Phantasm: Ravager (2016). Reggie
Bannister, Michael Baldwin, Bill Thornbury, and Angus Scrimm star.
The new set will include all previous extras from the sold-out Phantasm Collection, along with a new 4K restoration of Phantasm II supervised by Coscarelli, a new Dolby Atmos audio track on Phantasm, an extended making-of documentary on Phantasm: Ravager, and more to be announced.
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