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Clean Air and Water Act Pros

Clean Air and Water Act Cons

Clean Air and Water Act is not essential to live because it harms impairs economic growth.

Clean Air and Water Act is essential in order to provide clean water to drink as well as clean air to breathe.

Clean Air and Water Act

Clean Air Act Pro

Clean Water Act

  • The original act requires states to identify pollution-impaired water areas and develop "total maximum daily loads" (TMDLs)
  • If the state fails to act, the EPA has to step in and fix the issue.
  • However, states lacked the resources to undertake their task.
  • The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been reluctant to do their job.
  • This renders the original act sort of useless if nobody is taking the action to execute it.

Air quality has substantially improved throughout the course of the Act’s inception. Several people perceive that the economic value recovered by having cleaner air easily makes up for the money spent on the agency’s costs, as well as the lost production in the energy industries. Moreover, air pollution is essentially a leading factor contributing to global warming. Consequently, reducing air pollution is vital in averting global warming.

Since the Act's introduction, it has saved thousands of lives and averted various diseases. Ultimately, the act has supplied beneficial assets that have provided a sanitary and healthy environment.

PROS

CONS

  • The Clean Water Act targets polluted water at the surface. It does not protect sources of ground water or water quantity issues.

Debate of the Pros and Cons of the Clean Air and Water Act

Clean Water Act Pros

Clean Air Act Cons

  • This act was intended to clean up waste discharges and to maintain the toxic in the water at certain level.
  • When this act was issued, they had funding to address water pollution both for state and local as well as for research.
  • For example the Great Lakes Critical Programs Act of 1990, put into place parts of the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement of 1978, signed by the U.S. and Canada, where the two nations agreed to reduce certain toxic pollutants in the Great Lakes. That law required EPA to establish water quality criteria for the Great Lakes addressing 29 toxic pollutants with maximum levels that are safe for humans, wildlife, and aquatic life.
  • The Clean Air stunts economic growth.
  • There is enough incentive to do so without the clean air act because if rivers or lakes were privately owned, the owner would have far more incentive to keep the source clean than the federal government does.
  • Cost both taxpayers and businesses billions of dollars.
  • There have been a number of cases in which the regulations set by the CAA have infringed on individuals’ property rights. Indeed, over the last several decades reconciling environmental law and property rights has become increasingly difficult.

Works Cited

  • http://www.intellectualtakeout.org/sites/www.intellectualtakeout.org/files/The%20Clean%20Air%20%20Water%20Acts%20Study%20Guide%20-%20May%202012_0.pdf
  • http://www.epa.gov/cleanairactbenefits/1990-2010/chap1130.pdf
  • http://www.rff.org/Publications/WPC/Pages/Environmental-Federalism-Wallace-E-Oates.aspx

THANK YOU!

Clean Air and Water Act

By: Hugo Montes

Jackie Rivas

Samantha Ford

Kurstin Jones

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