"I'm also a bicyclist," testified Kenton Pattie of Falls Church. "I've been racing for many, many years." Further, he said, "I swam this morning for an hour and a half right next to the Beltway, off of Braddock Road." Pattie presented some surprising evidence to the officials: "Studies that show the IQ score has gone down as a result of -- by four points for children who were exposed to nitrogen dioxide."
"Do you have a reference for that?" asked the moderator, Rosalina Rodriguez.
"I may have to look it up," Pattie answered.
"Was it specifically NO2 or was it all traffic pollution?" asked David Orlin, an EPA lawyer.
"I can't answer that, not for sure," the witness replied. "I found this off the Internet."
The officials took notes.
Participation would have been even lighter if the American Lung Association hadn't chosen to flood the zone. Of the 24 speakers, 14 were chapter heads, volunteers, low-level staff members or top officials with the association -- and each delivered roughly the same talking points: that the EPA proposal is too lenient.
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