Maintaining air quality throughout the world is a significant global challenge. Increasingly, human health, environment, and policy concerns seem to run up against the economic considerations of operating a power-generating company and maintaining the energy requirements for the modern industrial economic network. Industry is focused on meeting current and future regulations within the limits of available technologies at an acceptable cost. What are acceptable technologies? What are acceptable costs? What breakthroughs could new technologies provide to both industry and the public? Regardless of their origin, pollutants respect no boundaries. Airborne pollutants more than others require policy decisions that reach across boundaries, both national and international. Representatives from government, business, science, and environmental groups will take part in this discussion, which will include:

•	Review of the current understanding of air quality science.
•	The challenges in getting good science and good policy to work together.
•	Review of current and proposed emissions standards.
•	Application of new technologies for air quality.
•	Discussion on the need for and amount of regulation to ensure public health.
•	Impacts of pollutants and regulations on economic growth and competitiveness.
•	Future research and development needs.

Panel Moderator:	Raymond J. Garant, Manager of Environmental Policy and Policy Outreach, American Chemical Society
	Raymond Garant's responsibilities include management of the ACS Science & the Congress Project, a program of congressional staff briefings and publications that aims to improve decision makers' understanding of the role that science can and should play in policy decisions. He is also staff liaison for the Society's Committee on Environmental Improvement and coordinates its programs in environmental science, education, outreach, and policy.
Panelists:	Larry Monroe, Program Manager for Southern Company
	Dr. Monroe supervises a team that develops new pollution control technologies, evaluates new processes, and solves problems for existing controls for Southern's fossil-fired generation. Steve Benson, EERC Senior Research Manager and Panel Coordinator Dr. Benson has conducted and managed research, development, and demonstration projects on combustion and environmental control systems for the past 25 years. On June 5, 2003, Dr. Benson provided testimony regarding the challenges of controlling mercury emissions from power plants to the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Clean Air, Climate Change, and Nuclear Safety, Committee on Environmental and Public Works Michael Durham, President of ADA Environmental Systems Dr. Durham founded his current company in 1985 to commercialize environmental technologies. Dr. Durham has been involved in the measurement and control of air pollution from utility and industrial sources for the past 25 years. Felice Stadler, National Policy Coordinator, Clean the Raid Campaign, National Wildlife Federation Ms. Stadler has been working on air toxics and other clean air issues for 8 years. She is a member of the Washington, D.C. Council of Government's Air Quality Public Advisory Committee and a board member of the Mercury Policy Project, a project that involves building a broad-based grassroots coalition calling for national strategies to curb mercury pollution. John Shanahan, Majority Counsel, U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, Washington, D.C. John Shanahan is Majority Counsel for the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works. He is considered to be the team leader for the majority for President Bush's Clear Skies legislation, which was introduced by Chairman James Inhofe (R-Okla.) at the request of the Bush Administration earlier this year. Prior to joining the committee, he worked in environmental policy for 12 years. He has appeared on CNN, C-SPAN, NPR, and other broadcasts. He also has been published in The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Chicago Tribune, Fortune, and other publications. He has also testified before federal and state legislatures. Most recently, he was a regulatory attorney working on air issues pertaining to coal-fired utilities, smelters (plants that purify metals), and mining operations. Mr. Shanahan holds a B.A. in Economics from the University of Virginia and a J.D. from George Mason University. He is a member of the Virginia Bar.