Policy

ISEE NAC Statements

• July 2025: ISEE NAC Statement on Trump Administration Policies Threaten Public and Environmental Health (pdf)
• April 2025: ISEE NAC - American Thoracic Society Statement in Support of EPA Scientists
• July 2022: ISEE NAC Statement on the US Supreme Court’s Ruling on West Virginia vs. EPA (pdf)

Public Commenting

Please see some of the comments we have submitted on behalf of ISEE-NAC:

Comments on the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Proposed Rules

• February 2024: Comments on EPA’s Lead and Copper Rule Improvements (LCRI) (pdf)

• March 2023: Comments on Reconsideration of the National Ambient Air Quality Standards for Particulate Matter (pdf)

• June 2022: EPA’s Good Neighbor Plan regarding the Federal Implementation Plan Addressing Regional Ozone Transport for the 2015 Primary Ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standard (pdf)

• May 2022: CASAC Review of the document titled Policy Assessment for the Reconsideration of the Ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standards, External Review Draft (pdf)

• November 2021: Comments on the Supplement to the 2019 Integrated Science Assessment for Particulate Matter (External Review Draft, 2021) (pdf)

• April 2021: National Primary Drinking Water Regulations: Lead and Copper Rule Revisions; Delay of Effective and Compliance Dates (pdf)

• September 2020: Review of the Ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standards (pdf)

• August 2020: Increasing Consistency and Transparency in Considering Costs and Benefits in the Rulemaking Process (pdf)

• June 2020: Review of the National Ambient Air Quality Standards for Particulate Matter (pdf)

• May 2020: Strengthening Transparency in Regulatory Science (pdf)

• April 2019: National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants: Coal- and Oil-Fired Electric Utility Steam Generating Units-Reconsideration of Supplemental Finding and Residual Risk and Technology Review (pdf)

Policy Comments

To the Office of Management and Budget (OMB):

• June 2023: Comments on Updates to Circular No. A-4 on Regulatory Analysis (pdf)

• September 2020: Summary of an ISEE NAC Policy Committee conference call with OMB on the EPA’s proposed “Transparency in Science” rule (pdf)

• November 2020: Summary of an ISEE NAC Policy Committee conference call with OMB on PM NAAQS (pdf)

• December 2020: Summary of an ISEE NAC Policy Committee conference call with OMB on Ozone NAAQS (pdf)

Policy Letters

• January 2021: Petition for postponement of “Strengthening Transparency” Rule (pdf)

Infographics

We are grateful to Sydney Wolchok, MPH, for preparing these infographics!