Essays on Clean Air Act

There are several laws that aimed at protecting human health and environment. The government and private parties are allowed to enforce the federal environmental laws. The government has the resources and tools required to enforce environmental laws and compels compliance with the environmental regulations and laws. Criminal and civil environmental enforcement are streamlined towards protection of environment and health. The criminal environmental enforcement seeks to punish the actions that the society view as harmful to the environment and health of people. The civil, environmental enforcement is streamlined towards individual parties who should be compensated for the harm caused by ...

The Clean Air Act

Summary The Clean Air Act (CAA) is federal law passed in 1970 with the objective of minimizing air pollution on a nation-wide scale. Just like other United States environmental laws, the law is administered by Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in conjunction with both the federal, state, and local governments. Some of the provisions of the law enables EPA to create National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) with the aim of safeguarding public health and preventing discharges of harmful air pollutants. The law passed through major amendments in 1977 and 1990 to expand its mandate. For instance, the amendments necessitated ...

The Clean Air Act abbreviated as CAA and coded as 42 U.S.C. 7401 et seq., is a federal law of the United States that seeks to protect the environment and human health against emissions that make outdoor or ambient air unsafe. By regulating emissions from mobile sources and stationeries, the act is designed to ensure that the air we breathe is free from harm. Hence the major goal of the law’s aim is to protect both the environment and human health from possible effects that may arise due to air pollution. Despite its initial drafting in 1973, the ...

Describe air quality conditions in the US before steep regulations were imposed.

The United States has experienced the worst air quality conditions during the 1940s and 1950s as an effect of the progressing industrialization and urbanization. Another main reason is that the United States has no national regulation and policy towards hazardous gas emission and air pollution during these periods of time. During the 1940s and 1950s, the United States have experienced deadly photochemical smog on major cities including Los Angeles and Donora(Williams, 2013). In addition, the ozone levels in the lower layers of the atmosphere exceed its limit and become dangerous to people as well as the environment. During ...

The “new” moment in this article was the fact that the company needed to change working processes on its utilities to complain to the Clean Air Act. The Georgia Power’s Bowem plant looked like a “unique” object. The plant was quite big with its ability to “produce enough power to serve the residential, commercial, and industrial demands of 1 million people” (Harvard business school, 1993, p. 1). However, it was quite clean and had fewer emissions than smaller objects; it was a unique feature because of plant’s size and age. Amendments to the Clean Air Act were ...

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I would like to have the report not too professional make it as student one please. the topic about the life cycle of cell phones and there are four different aspects for the cell phones each one is individual report for no more than 250 words the first one, 1.the social sustainability of the Materials extraction for cell phones. I want no more than 250 words about this one life cycle of cell phones 2.the impact of Environment. by Manufacturing cell phones no more than 250 words. life cycle of cell phones 3.the economic principles for the Use of ...

Introduction

The United States is a critical country in shaping global issues in matters concerning the environment, politics, democracy, technology, culture and many other issues. Currently, Global warming debates have gained momentum world over, and the US has been on the spot to provide guidance or an example in addressing this critical issue. Besides pressure from the international community, the US has had to respond to numerous challenges powered by carbon emissions. The country's electricity sector contributes the largest portion of carbon emissions followed by transportation, industries and residential places. The state also loses more than $100 billion every decade ...

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This paper examines the case of Massachusetts v. Environmental Protection Agency, a 5-4 Supreme Court decision that combined the substantive, environmental law question of whether the Environmental Protection Agency erred in its initial decision not to regulate greenhouse gas emissions for motor vehicles with the procedural issue of whether states, cities, and environmental organizations had legal standing (defined as the right to use the courts as opposed to Congress to force governmental action) for the environmental claims at issue in the case. This paper begins with a brief overview of the political, legal, and cultural context for assessing the ...

RE: The Clean Air Act Amendment

There is no doubt into our commitment to comply with the new regulations on the use of coal in our plants. However, there are underlying complexities that need to be addressed. While there remains the need to control industrial emissions to sustainable levels, particular challenges are experienced. Installation of pollution-control equipment is one of the projected solutions to this long-standing issue that requires agent redress to sanitize our air. The Act creates compelling reasons that make its implementation indispensable (Davidson & Joseph 57-75). Given this, it is critical to underline the business perspective of the decision to either purchase the ...

AIR POLLUTION THROUGH FOSSIL FUEL BURNING

Since the time of the Industrial Revolution, fossil fuel has been widely used to power machinery such as trains, power plants and the earliest designs of cars. Around that time frame, many developed countries have used this breakthrough to industrialize their own countries. But, despite all the advancements the Industrial Revolution has done for each of these now famous countries, they were not able to realize that they were already making serious damages to the world and only found out all about it when the disasters became worst. According to a recent study cited by O’Driscoll and Vergano (2007), ...

The US Clean Air Act of 1990 (2008), passed in June 1989 by President George Bush Sr, is a supplementary and updated version of the first Clean Air Act passed in 1963 to combat the problems of smug and air pollution from factories, power plants and steel mills and create a system to regulate emissions. The original law was also created to discover other hazardous substances that may cause air pollution thus leading to the creation of another law, the Motor Vehicle Air Pollution Control Act of 1965. The 1990 amendment was to increase the authority and responsibility of the federal ...