substances to the list as additional data are developed and assessed. No time frame has been established for addition of substances to the list. F. Lists of Hazardous Air Pollutants Sections 108(a), lll(d), and 112(b)(i)(A) of the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1970 require that the Administrator of the EPA publish, and from time to time revise, three lists of hazardous air pollutants. defined in the amendments, a hazardous air pollutant is an air pollutant . . . which may reasonably be anticipated to result in an increase in mortality or an increase in serious, irreversible, or incapaci-tating reversible, illness. The EPA Office of Air Quality Planning and

Author(s):  
William V. Luneburg

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.


2020 ◽  
Vol 70 (5) ◽  
pp. 481-490
Author(s):  
Juan Declet-Barreto ◽  
Gretchen T. Goldman ◽  
Anita Desikan ◽  
Emily Berman ◽  
Joshua Goldman ◽  
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