ABSTRACT
The issue of indoor air quality is one in which, for all practical purposes, the interests of the utility industry are identical to those of the rest of society. Both industry and society have an interest in indoor air quality for two principal reasons. The Environmental Assessment Department of the Electric Power Research Institute is pleased to be able to participate in the symposium and welcomes the opportunity to be one of its sponsors. The utility industry finds itself in an interesting and conflicting situation. On the one hand, it encourages increased use of insulation, but, on the other hand, it faces the problem of potential accumulation of pollutants indoors as a result of the reduced air exchange because of the tightening of homes. Those who advocate solar heating face a conflict. People have good data on indoor air quality and use those data to develop total exposure models; people epidemiological efforts will continue to be fraught with serious inadequacies.
