In the September 2005 edition of Environmental Health Perspectives, doctoral student Philip Johnson and John J. Graham published an article entitled Fine Particulate Matter National Ambient Air Quality Standards: Public Health Impact on Populations in the Northeastern United States. Industry groups and public health scientists continue to debate over how stringent clean air standards should be to protect populations with an adequate margin of safety, as mandated by the Clean Air Act. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will propose new national ambient particulate matter standards in December 2005. This paper finds that the level of these standards has substantial implications on how many susceptible persons will benefit from cleaner air in the northeastern U.S.


Doctoral student Graeme Auld and Professor Benjamin Cashore recently collaborated on a new book. In Governing Through Markets, co-authors Benjamin Cashore, associate professor of sustainable forest policy and chair of the F&ES program on forest certification, Graeme Auld, and Deanna Newsom document five cases in which the Forest Stewardship Council, a forest certification program backed by leading environmental groups, has competed with industry and landowner-sponsored certification systems for legitimacy. The book won the 2005 Sprout Award for best book on international environmental policy and politics.