EPA Awards $30 Million for Research on Air Pollution Health Effects

EPA Administrator Michael Leavitt has announced the award of a $30 million grant to the University of Washington to study the long-term health effects of air pollution, including fine particulates, on an ethnically diverse population set taken from cities across the U.S. These funds comprise EPA's single largest research grant awarded in the history of the agency. The study will focus on the association between air pollution and the progression of cardiovascular disease in 8700 people ages 50 to 89.