scholarly journals Regulatory Road Map for Formaldehyde Emissions and other Hazardous Air Pollutants in Fiberglass Insulation Materials in the United States

2005 ◽  
Vol os-14 (1) ◽  
pp. 1558925005os-14
Author(s):  
Desi M. Chari
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Pollution Control ◽  
Air Pollutants ◽  
Manufacturing Industry ◽  
The United States ◽  
Air Pollution Control ◽  
Hazardous Air Pollutants ◽  
Road Map ◽  
Regulatory Climate ◽  
Clean Air

This paper provides a perspective of air pollution control regulations in the United States that affect the Wool Fiberglass Manufacturing Industry. In addition, it analyzes regulations specifically targeted towards formaldehyde emissions from these operations and evaluates what lies ahead under existing Clean Air Act requirements. This paper addresses only the regulatory climate in the United States. However, based on history, other countries such as Canada and European Union tend to mirror US laws that are eventually followed by other developing countries.

scholarly journals Drawing Boundaries for Air Quality Control Under the Clean Air Act: The Importance of NOT Being Nonattainment

2007 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
William V. Luneburg
Keyword(s):  
Quality Control ◽  
Air Quality ◽  
Pollution Control ◽  
Air Pollutants ◽  
Clean Air Act ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Air Pollution Control ◽  
Air Quality Control ◽  
Clean Air ◽  
Regulatory Controls

Much has changed with regard to air pollution control since 1970 whenCongress revised the Clean Air Act to assume a form that, in very broad terms,it retains today.  From a legal point of view, while states1 still retained at thattime wide-ranging discretion to design the regulatory controls necessary toattain the air quality goals of the Act, that discretion was significantly limitedwhen Congress revisited the Act in 1977.  State discretion diminished to aneven greater extent, particularly with regard to the air pollutants ozone, carbonmonoxide, and particulate matter, when President George H.W. Bush signedthe Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990.

scholarly journals Effect of Air Pollution Control on Life Expectancy in the United States

Epidemiology ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew W. Correia ◽  
C. Arden Pope ◽  
Douglas W. Dockery ◽  
Yun Wang ◽  
Majid Ezzati ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Air Pollution ◽  
Life Expectancy ◽  
Pollution Control ◽  
The United States ◽  
Air Pollution Control

scholarly journals Policy Evolution under the Clean Air Act

2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 27-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Schmalensee ◽  
Robert N. Stavins
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Pollution Control ◽  
Policy Instruments ◽  
Clean Air Act ◽  
The United States ◽  
Air Pollution Control ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Us ◽  
Clean Air ◽  
Air Pollution Regulation

The US Clean Air Act, passed in 1970 with strong bipartisan support, was the first environmental law to give the federal government a serious regulatory role, established the architecture of the US air pollution control system, and became a model for subsequent environmental laws in the United States and globally. We outline the act’s key provisions, as well as the main changes Congress has made to it over time. We assess the evolution of air pollution control policy under the Clean Air Act, with particular attention to the types of policy instruments used. We provide a generic assessment of the major types of policy instruments, and we trace and assess the historical evolution of the Environmental Protection Agency’s policy instrument use, with particular focus on the increased use of market-based policy instruments, beginning in the 1970s and culminating in the 1990s. Over the past 50 years, air pollution regulation has gradually become more complex, and over the past 20 years, policy debates have become increasingly partisan and polarized, to the point that it has become impossible to amend the act or pass other legislation to address the new threat of climate change.

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