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	Clean Air Act (1990) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The 1990 Clean Air Act is a piece of U.S. legislation relating to the reduction of smog and atmospheric pollution.
		It follows the Clean Air Act in 1963, the Clean Air Act Amendment in 1966, the Clean Air Act Extension in 1970, and the Clean Air Act Amendments in 1977.
		Although the 1990 Clean Air Act is a federal law covering the entire country, the states do much of the work to carry out the Act.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Clean_Air_Act_(USA)_(1990) (731 words)

	CLEAN AIR ACT
		The 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments are a landmark effort to reduce air pollution through a variety of instruments including the use of a market based system of tradeable pollution "permits" under Title IV and Title V. Recently, however, enforcement has lagged because of Congressional resistance.
		Air Quality Criteria Documents for sulfur oxides and particulates were issued two years after the passage of the bill and criteria documentation for HCs, CO, and oxidants were not ready until 1970 and NOx criteria were not issued until 1971.
		Clean air legislation languished almost untouched during the Reagan administration even though pollution continued to be a significant voter concern.
	www.american.edu /TED/clean.htm (5335 words)

	Cleaner Air
		Air quality in the United States has been steadily improving over the last 30 years, and through cooperation with the private sector, the Administration is working to significantly expand on those improvements.
		The Clean Air Interstate Rule will require power plants in the 28 Easternmost states and the District of Columbia to upgrade their facilities to reduce SO2 and NOx.
		The Clean Air Mercury Rule establishes "standards of performance" limiting mercury emissions from new and existing coal-fired power plants and creates a market-based cap-and-trade program that will reduce nationwide utility emissions of mercury in two distinct phases.
	www.whitehouse.gov /ceq/clean-air.html (3292 words)

	Air Pollution Causes
		The primary air pollutants found in most urban areas are carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides, sulfur oxides, hydrocarbons, and particulate matter (both solid and liquid).
		A major indoor air pollutant is radon-222, a colorless, odorless, tasteless, naturally occurring radioactive gas produced by the radioactive decay of uranium-238.
		Indoor air will be healthier than outdoor air if you use an energy recovery ventilator to provide a consistent supply of fresh filtered air and then seal air leaks in the shell of your home.
	healthandenergy.com /air_pollution_causes.htm (2296 words)

	Air Pollution Health Effects
		According to the National Resources Defense Council, some 64,000 people in the USA may be dying prematurely each year from cardiopulmonary causes linked to air pollution.
		Air pollution from coal burning in electric utilities is a dominant cause of smog, deadly soot, global warming, pollution in our National Parks, toxic contamination of fish and polluted estuaries.
		In the first long-term study of the effects of air pollution on children, researchers reported Wednesday that children and teenagers in Southern California communities with higher levels of air pollution were more likely to have diminished lung function.
	healthandenergy.com /air_pollution_health_effects.htm (1079 words)

	Bestselling author Michael Fumento reports: "Is EPA's Oxy-fuels Plan a Sham?"
		It's one of the first elements of the Clean Air Act of 1990 to kick in, and will be the first that consumers notice.
		While the 1990 Clean Air Act specifically allows for the use of mobile emissions testing as part of a city's clean air plans, the EPA ruled that cities would not get credit for such testing.
		The reason for the national decline in automobile emissions, says Anderson, is federal clean air regulations instituted in the early 1970s that resulted in the use of catalytic converters and other pollution reduction technology.
	www.fumento.com /ibdcleanair.html (2050 words)

	Clean Air Act (1970) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Clean Air Act Extension of 1970 is a United States federal law that requires the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to develop and enforce regulations to protect the general public from exposure to airborne contaminants that are known to be hazardous to human health.
		This law is an amendment to the Clean Air Act originally passed in 1963.
		The Clean Air Act was made federal law in 1970 and is listed under the 42 U.S.C.A. The Clean Air Act is significant in that it was the first major environmental law in the United States to include a provision for citizen suits.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Clean_Air_Act_(USA)_(1970) (372 words)

	Accomplishments of the Clean Air Act, as amended by the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		In an area of the country where unemployment rates generally held around 10 percent, the Clean Air Act caused the loss of over 5,000 mining jobs alone, not to mention the other jobs that were lost as a result of the slow downturn in the mining industry.
		Air Toxics Challenges Two important air toxics challenges are elevated risks from the multiple toxic pollutants emitted into urban airsheds, and health risks from mercury, a persistent toxic substance that accumulates in the food chain.
		Under the Clean Air Act, EPA is required to develop an Integrated Urban Air Toxics Strategy that addresses air toxics in urban areas, looking collectively at emissions from large and small industrial and commercial operations, on-road and off-road vehicles, as well as indoor air sources.
	energycommerce.house.gov /107/Hearings/05012002hearing548/print.htm (19925 words)

	Jeffrey R. Holmstead, " Thirty Years of Clean Air Progress" , eJournal USA: Global Issues, June 2005
		In fact, it was not until the Clean Air Act of 1963 that the United States began to focus its attention on the link between air pollution and public health.
		Under the Clean Air Act, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has focused on six key air pollutants that have a significant impact on public health and the environment: ozone, particulate matter, carbon monoxide, nitrogen dioxide, sulfur dioxide, and lead.
		Because transportation sources are the largest contributor to air pollution in urban areas of the developing world, one of EPA's key priorities is the Partnership for Clean Fuels and Vehicles (www.unep.org/PCFV), launched at the World Summit on Sustainable Development in South Africa in August 2002.
	usinfo.state.gov /journals/itgic/0605/ijge/holmstead.htm (2324 words)

	The Clear Skies Initiative
		The acid rain cap and trade program created by Congress in 1990 reduced more pollution in the last decade than all other Clean Air Act command-and-control programs combined, and achieved significant reductions at two-thirds of the cost to accomplish those reductions using a "command-and-control" system.
		Build upon the 1990 Clean Air Act’s acid rain program, America’s most successful clean air law in the last decade, and encourage the use of new pollution control technologies.
		After 30 years of experience in regulating air pollution, America has proved that there is a better way to accomplish our clean air goals.
	www.whitehouse.gov /news/releases/2002/02/clearskies.html (2753 words)

	Atmosphere, Climate & Environment Information Programme
		Waste generation is much lower in developing countries, whereas the USA has more than double the waste generation per person than many European countries, including the UK.
		With the introduction of the 1956 Clean Air Act, and the consequential move away from coal fires by the 1960s, there was a corresponding fall in dust and cinder waste.
		Outside of Europe, the USA produces 400 million tonnes of industrial waste per year, more than all of the European countries put together.
	www.ace.mmu.ac.uk /Resources/Fact_Sheets/Key_Stage_4/Waste/02.html (967 words)

	Environmental Protection Agency - Clean Water Act
		The Act established the basic structure for regulating discharges of pollutants into the waters of the United States.
		The Act made it unlawful for any person to discharge any pollutant from a point source into navigable waters, unless a permit was obtained under its provisions.
		This electronic version annotates the sections of the Act with the corresponding sections of the U.S. Code and footnote commentary on the effect of other laws on the current form of the Clean Water Act.
	www.epa.gov /region5/water/cwa.htm (650 words)

	Clean Air - Cool Planet \| Climate Change Solutions for the Northeast
		Upon her return in 2000, she acted as counselor to Vice President Al Gore during the presidential campaign and served as a senior policy advisor to the Democratic National Committee.
		He is also the Executive Director of Clean Energy States Alliance (CESA), a nonprofit organization that represents all the major state clean energy funds in the United States that work together through CESA to create and expand clean energy markets.
		The Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 — Mr.
	www.cleanair-coolplanet.org /conference_GWS05/speaker_bios.php (9451 words)

	There’s Even More You Should Know About Smart Growth, Urban Sprawl, Air Quality and Health
		The prevalence of many of these concerns is in part due to the way in which we have built our neighborhoods, communities and metropolitan areas during the past half-century – dispersed, inaccessible, and automobile oriented – in a word sprawling.
		Air pollution is a major contributor to lung diseases such as asthma and emphysema.
		In fact, diesel particulates are the most significant source of air toxics in California and account for 70 percent of the cancer risk from toxic air contaminants statewide, according to CARB.
	www.californialung.org /spotlight/cleanair04_sprawl.html (925 words)

	Ben Henneke
		Henneke is a member of the US EPA Clean Air Act Advisory Committee and co-chairs the Economic Incentives and Regulatory Innovation Subcommittee.
		He has served on the Clean Air Act Advisory Committee since its inception in 1990.
		He developed the first "Flexible Attainment Region" in the USA, the model now allowing over 30 non-attainment areas to be designated "Early Action Compact" areas.
	www.cleanairaction.com /ben.htm (222 words)

	Green Car Congress: Canadian Air Quality Deteriorating, Greenhouse Gas Emissions Climbing
		Canadian air quality has deteriorated during the past 10 years, while greenhouse gas emissions rose 24%—thereby hitting a level 32% above the targets set out by the Kyoto Protocol for 2008 to 2012—according to a Canadian federal report released this week.
		The pollutants that lead to ground-level ozone (nitrogen oxides and volatile organic compounds) are emitted primarily during fossil fuel combustion mainly in and around urban areas, especially by motor vehicles and thermal-electric power plants.
		If they don't act now though and the loudest supporters of Kyoto fail to meet their targets in the end, this could be disasterous to any future efforts to combat global warming.
	www.greencarcongress.com /2005/12/canadian_air_qu.html (2413 words)

	CLEAN Air - Houston: from benchwarmer to benchmarker
		CLEAN Air - Houston: from benchwarmer to benchmarker
		For that reason, Houston has a moral responsibility not only to clean up its own act but to be a national and world leader in the fight to stop global warming,” says Greg Harman, editor for EarthHouston.net.
		The Houston Climate Protection Alliance is educating Houstonians on climate change and has been active, along with CLEAN and the Sierra Club, in engaging the city on the issue.
	www.cleanhouston.org /air/features/iclei.htm (1824 words)

	USATODAY.com - Coal power plant cleans up its act (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		But what goes on here — a process in which coal is cooked and turned into a gas instead of burned to create steam — could change the future of coal power generation as we know it.
		In 1999, the latest year for which figures are available, coal-fired utilities filled the air with 18 million tons of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide, two major components of acid rain.
		In 1990, Congress amended the Clean Air Act, phasing in tighter limits on emissions of soot particles, nitrogen oxides and sulfur dioxide.
	www.usatoday.com /money/energy/2001-08-27-clean-coal.htm (1195 words)

	US-Venezuela Gas
		The Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 (P.L. 101-549) required the use of reformulated gas (RFG) that met standards set under Environmental Protection Agency's Clean Air Act (CAA), starting on January 1, 1995.
		In addition, RFG is also subject to performance standard tests that proscribes a 15 percent improvement in air quality in 1995, and 25 percent improvement by 2000.
		The measure intends to clean the air of the United States, especially urban areas, often located in the industrial Northeast.
	www.american.edu /TED/esp/venezuela-WTO.htm (1275 words)

	Untitled Document
		The Clean Air Act's (CAA) New Source Review (NSR) requirements have been a major source of contention in recent years, leading to a revision of the rules and numerous lawsuits between industry, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and several states.
		For additional information see AGI's Update on Clean Air Issues from the 108th Congress and the Congressional Research Service report provided by the National Library for the Environment.
		Background section includes material from AGI's Update on the Clean Air Act for the 108th Congress.
	www.agiweb.org /gap/legis109/cleanair_nsr_cont.html (653 words)

	Babies With Beards - About Hirsutism
		The metal is extracted by heating cinnabar in a current of air and condensing the vapor.
		The United States Clean Air Act, passed in 1990, put mercury on a list of toxic pollutants which need to be controlled to the greatest possible extent.
		Aluminium in air is ordinarily protected by a molecule-thin layer of its own oxide (which is not porous to oxygen).
	www.secretlair.com /babieswithbeards/mercury.shtml (2893 words)

	SSRN-Some Thoughts on Acid Rain, the Clean Air Act and Implications for Acid Rain Policy in the USA and Europe by ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		SSRN-Some Thoughts on Acid Rain, the Clean Air Act and Implications for Acid Rain Policy in the USA and Europe by Robert McGee
		And what is worse -- the U.S. Congress passed the Clean Air Act of 1990, which was intended to deal with the acid rain problem, without even looking at NAPAP's study.
		McGee, Robert W., "Some Thoughts on Acid Rain, the Clean Air Act and Implications for Acid Rain Policy in the USA and Europe" (July 1996).
	papers.ssrn.com /sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=74865 (307 words)

	DAILY ECO UPDATES - Environmental News
		The Bush administration has issued guidance to remove Clean Water Act protection for wetlands, and it is considering changing rules to eliminate protection for wetlands and small streams.
		To prevent this weakening of the Clean Water Act, Representatives Saxton, Leach, Oberstar and Dingell, and Senators Feingold, Jeffords and Boxer are asking other Members of Congress to sign on to a "Dear Colleague" letter to the President.
		The roadless act was established by President Clinton in 2001 after receiving millions of public comments in favor of the rule.
	www.ecomall.com /activism/sierra162.htm (2187 words)

	EPA'S Clean Air Act Air Toxics Database
		EPA's Clean Air Act Air Toxics Database is a four-volume series of databases that focuses on 189 toxic airborne substances regulated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as a result of the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments.
		The four volume set represents the most complete source for frequently needed information for air toxics sampling and analysis, pollution abatement, regulatory decisions, and occupational health and safety support required for complying with the Clean Air Act.
		In addition, the accompanying manual includes a summary of problems unique to air sampling; considerations important for collecting representative samples; a discussion on selecting sampling devices for volatile, semi-volatile, and nonvolatile compounds; and a brief discourse on the influence of meteorology and topography in collecting air samples.
	www.ramex.com /ls/ls-1480.html (317 words)

	Milestones in Air Pollution History \| American Lung Association of California
		Air pollution inversion in New York leads to 168 deaths.
		Air Quality Control Act passed by Congress, setting timetables for states to establish their own air quality standards.
		Further revisions to Clean Air Act Amendments are passed by Congress, this time providing more time to comply with standards but requiring that cities implement specific air pollution control measures.
	www.californialung.org /spotlight/cleanair02_milestones.html (1005 words)

	Clean Air Act Approval
		To protect against high concentrations of air pollutants at ground level, which could create health effects, the Clean Air Act 1993 allows Local Authorities to control the height of chimneys serving industrial processes.
		The theory behind this is to ensure that emissions from chimneys exit at high levels to aid dispersion and dilution and limit the process of gravity from bringing high concentrations of grit, dust, soot and gases down to ground level.
		In addition provisions are also contained within legislation dealing with prescribed processes under the Environmental Protection Act 1990 and the Pollution Prevention and Control Regulations 2000; details of these processes in Congleton Borough can be found under Industrial Air Pollution.
	www.congleton.gov.uk /default.asp?t=273 (191 words)

	Air and Water
		NEDC is also one of the only organizations in the state working to address pollution from factory farms and industrial stormwater, as well as regularly challenging underprotective state-issued pollution discharge permits.
		In 1990, NEDC successfully used the Clean Water Act to prevent state certification for construction of a dam that would have impounded the last free-flowing stretch of the Upper Klamath River in Oregon.
		The Clean Air Act requires emissions sources to apply for permits that outline performance standards and emission limitations.
	law.lclark.edu /org/nedc/water.html (426 words)

	CleanAirAct
		The Virginia Indoor Clean Air Act was passed in 1990.
		As of 1990, all Virginia localities are prohibited from passing laws more protective than state law, but may outline enforcement and administrative procedures.
		While entire nations have gone smoke-free, in VIRGINIA (USA), America's birthplace of liberty, six apparent dictators have denied the freedom to breathe smoke-free air to an entire state.
	www.gasp.org /cleanairact.html (2187 words)

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