Clean Air Act
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A Clean Air Act describes one of a number of pieces of legislation relating to the reduction of smog and atmospheric pollution in general. The United States Congress passed the Clean Air Act in 1963, the Clean Air Act Amendment in 1966, the Clean Air Act Extension in 1970, and Clean Air Act Amendments in 1977 and 1990. Numerous state governments and local governments have enacted similar legislation, either implementing federal programs or filling in locally important gaps in federal programs.
The use of the federal government and state and local governments to enforce clean air standards has contributed to an improvement of the health of Americans and a longer life span for Americans. Critics argue it has also sapped corporate profits, and contributed to outsourcing abroad, while defenders counter that improved environmental air quality has increased more jobs than it has decreased. A Pennsylvania legislative supporter of clean air standards, Rep. Mark B. Cohen of Philadelphia, said "Vast progress has been made toward the development of clean air, but sufferers of asthma and other diseases need us to make much more progress in the future."
The Clean Air Act has spurred considerable action by individual states in the U.S. to pass parallel laws addressing air quality maintenance and enhancement. Additionally the Clean Air Act and state statutes have led to widespread use of atmospheric dispersion models, including point source models, roadway air dispersion models and aircraft air pollution models in order to analyze air quality impacts of proposed major actions.
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[edit] Clean Air Acts
[edit] United Kingdom
- Coal-fires banned in London in 1273 by Edward I.
- The Clean Air Act 1956 responded to London's Great Smog of 1952.
[edit] United States
- The Clean Air Act (1970), a United States environmental law, introduced regulation
- The Clean Air Act (1990) proposed emissions trading, added provisions for addressing acid rain, ozone depletion and toxic air pollution, and established a national permits program.
[edit] Canada
- Canadian Environment Minister Rona Ambrose introduced in mid-October 2006, a Clean Air Act with mostly measures to fight smog pollution and greenhouse emissions. [1]. On October 19, 2006, Ambrose revealed details of the plan which would include reducing the greenhouse emissions to about 45 to 65% of the 2003 levels but for the year 2050. There are plans for regulations on vehicle fuel consumption for 2011 as well as targets for ozone and smog levels for 2025. [2]
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