backup information on year long project
The first clean air act was enacted in 1955. It was known as the Air Pollution Control Act of 1955. It has been revised three times (1963, 1970, and most recently in 1990). The national government lobbied for this act to passed. It was evident with the high amounts of air pollution were a detriment and problem that needed to be dealt with on a national level. It was the nations first piece of legislation on the issue. Its purpose was to provide research and technical assistance relating to air pollution control.
The second act was the Clean Air Act of 1963. It was used to improve, strengthen, and accelerate programs for the prevention and abatement of air pollution. It was ammened multiple times to include standards for automobile emissions and research into dividing the country into Air Quality Control Regions.(AQCRs).
Clean Air Act of 1970 was an act to amend the Clean Air Act, to provide for a more effective program to improve the quality of hte nations air. It was a bit ambitious however. It strictly regulated emissions of cars, put research into noise pollution in cities, and put legal suits on people or organizations that did not cohere with the law.
The final and most recent Clean Air Act came in 1990. Its purpose, to ament the Clean Air Act to provide for attainment and maintenance of health protective national ambient air quality standards, and for other purposes. It took the control of pollution out of what used to be under the states control and put it under the national government. This particular Act installed teh Best Available Control Technology (BACT) to reduce the amount of air toxics.
The process of environmental safety like this is an evolution. That is why it is important to my year long project. It moves and acts as the environment does.
