Clean Air policies

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Assessing the Impacts of the CLRTAP and its Protocols and European Clean Air Policies... 

A more effective approach to clean air policy, and one example of a sensible program being implemented by the federal government, is the Clean Air Interstate Rule or CAIR, intended to reduce emissions of particulate matter and NO in the eastern United States. EPA finalized the CAIR rules on March 10, 2005 in response to a finding of non-attainment of National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for fine particulate matter and ozone formation. CAIR requires reductions in SOj and NOj emissions from coal-fired power plants the emissions limits spelled out in the CAIR plan affect electric utilities in 28 eastern states and the District of Columbia. Emissions reductions are to be achieved through a market-based cap-and-trade system similar to other air pollution programs EPA has put into practice over the last few decades. 

Hargrave, T. (2000). An Upstream/Downstream Hybrid Approach to Greenhouse Gas Trading, Center for Clean Air Policy Washington, DC. 

All employees have the right to a smoke-free workplace. The OPCW recognises the hazard to health of active and passive smoking and discourages staff members from smoking. The OPCW will establish a clean air policy to be developed in co-operation with staff. 

A clean and safe environment has become a priority to everyone in the world and air pollution is one of the top environmental concerns of our time. On 18 December 2013, the European Union adopted The Clean Air Policy Package to reduce environmental concerns and to improve the well-being of people. The filtration industry has been at the forefront of this matter making products for filtering polluted air and water to the state where people can breathe and drink safely. The filtration industry was the first to exploit the uses of nanofibre in the product as highly efficient filtration media. 

Bubble Policy The bubble concept introduced under PSD provisions of the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1977 was formally proposed as EPA policy on Jan. 18, 1979, the final policy statement being issued on Dec. 11, 1979. The bubble pohcy allows a company to find the most efficient way to control a plant s emissions as a whole rather than by meeting individual point-source requirements. If it is found less expensive to tighten control of a pollutant at one point and relax controls at another, this woiild be possible as long as the total pollution from the plant woiild not exceed the sum of the current hmits on individual point sources of pollution in the plant. Properly apphed, this approach would promote greater economic efficiency and increased technological innovation. 

Source From Stem, A. C., Heath, M. S., and Hufschmidt, M. M., A critical review of the role of fiscal policies and taxation in air pollution control. Proceedings of the Third International Clean Air Congress, Verein Deutscher Ingeniuere, Dusseldorf, pp. D-10-12, 1974. 

Clean Air Act. Many countries around the world have similar legislation and national policies aimed at protecting air quality. 

Agency (EPA), which was established in 1970, the same year the first Clean Air Act was passed into law. In 1972 the Clean Water Act became law, and in 1973 the Endangered Species Act became law. Other important federal environmental legislation includes the Resource Consei vation and Recoveiy Act, passed in 1976 the Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 the Nuclear Waste Policy Acts of 1982 and 1987 and the Low-Level Radioactive Waste Policy Acts of 1980 and 1985. From 1980 to 2000 these environmental regulations, and the enforcement efforts of the EPA, have had a much greater impact on decisions made in the energy industiy than all the policy initiatives implemented by the DOE. 

Clean Air for Europe (CAFE) was launched in March 2001 (CAFE 2007). CAFE is a program of technical analysis and policy development, which supported the development of the Thematic Strategy on Air Pollution under the Sixth EAP. The EU Commission adopted the Thematic Strategy in September 2005. 

The world energy crisis of the 1970s, however, spurred interest once again in ethanol as a transportation fuel source. Brazil adopted the widespread production and use of Alcool, hydrated ethanol, and Gasolina a 78 22 ratio blend of gasoline ethanol as a motor fuel. Other countries developed policies to maintain a fuel grade ethanol industry by conversion of biomass. Also, clean air and reformulated fuel policies have helped to promote the use of ethanol as a viable alternative fuel. 

Clean Air Act and its amendments in 1970, 1977, and 1990 1967 Air Quality Standards and National Air Pollution Acts and 1970 National Environmental Policy Act) (2) better waste disposal practices (1965 Solid Waste Disposal Act 1976 Resource Conservation and Recovery Act) (see Wastes, industrial Waste treatment, hazardous wastes) (S) reduced noise levels (1972 Noise Control Act) (4) improved control of the manufacture and use of toxic materials (1976 Toxic Substances Control Act) and (5) assignment of responsibility to manufacturers for product safety (1972 Consumer Product Safety Act) (15,16). 

The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), passed by Congress on December 24, 1969, and signed into law by President Nixon on January 1,1970, mandated the creation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Council on Environmental Quality. Congressional environmental protection legislation subsequent to NEPA included the Clean Air Act (1970), the Resource Recovery Act (1970), the Water Pollution Control Act (1972), the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act Amendments (1972), and others. 

The group recognized that developing policies to achieve positive outcomes would not be easy, and they spent considerable time discussing the types of policies—from taxes on carbon emissions, to clean-air credits, to education in public schools—that could be put in place to achieve certain benefits. One industry representative added, [It is] important to look back to the past at what didn t work and make sure we don t repeat the same mistakes. ... 

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