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Development of an Integrated Science Strategy for Ocean Acidification Monitoring, Research, and Impacts Assessment

The ocean has absorbed a significant portion carbon dioxide emissions from human activities, decreasing the pH of the water and leading to a suite of chemical changes collectively known as ocean ...
JD Supra

There’s No Doubt What EPA Staff Thinks Should Be the Result of EPA’s Reconsideration of the PM2.5 NAAQS

Late last week, EPA released an external review draft of the “Supplement to the 2019 Integrated Science Assessment for Particulate Matter.” For those of you who don’t recall, the original Integrated ...
JD Supra

EPA’s Latest Particulate Review Shows Impacts Below the Current NAAQS. How Will Trump Avoid Doing Something About It?

Last week, EPA posted its draft Integrated Science Assessment for Particulate Matter. It’s the foundational document for EPA’s periodic review of its National Ambient Air Quality Standard for PM. The ...
The Baltimore Sun

Md. school assessment tests inefficient and wasteful

Last month in Baltimore County, we administered the Maryland Integrated Science Assessment (MISA). The test is broken into four units, each of which takes 60 minutes to complete. I had 27 middle ...
The Baltimore Sun

Harford school board gets first look at Next Generation Science Standards

Fifth and eighth-graders will be the first Harford County Public Schools students exposed to the Next Generation Science Standards adopted by the state of Maryland, in the form of new standardized ...
Acsh.org

Testimony Before the Feb. 25, 2022 Meeting of the Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee

To discuss the Draft CASAC Report on EPA’s Draft Supplement to the 2019 Integrated Science Assessment (ISA) for PM and the Draft CASAC Report on EPA’s Draft PM Policy Assessment (PA). My name is Thom ...
The Herald-Mail

Some Washington County students show modest improvement in science assessment

Eighth-grade students from Washington County Public Schools showed slight improvement in a new science assessment, while fifth-grade results were stagnant, according to school system officials. Peggy ...