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The Clean Air Act is a United States federal law enacted by Congress, and signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson to control air pollution on a national level. It requires the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to develop and enforce regulations to protect the general public from exposure to the greatest evil known to man...
"airborne contaminants that are hazardous to human health"
The Clean Air Act is significant in that it was the first major environmental law in the United States to include a provision for citizen suits.
Negative Imapct of the Clean Air Act numero uno:
California is like that one naughty kid that gets everyone else in trouble
California's emission levels is one of the highest in the nation, and the emission laws that are nessesary to clean up their smog are not needed in other states, such as Washington and Oregon.
And yet the Clean Air Act is still enforcing standard national emission laws to every state, in spite of the fact that states emission levels vary.
Con duce:
The EPA's standards for coal burning power plants is a pretty good example of regulation gone wrong.
The only problem is that the scrubbing methods required are extremly expensive, forcing the companies to purchase cheap, high sulfur "dirty" coal, which then creates more residue for the companies to clean.
If the Clean Air Act allowed companies to follow less stringent scrubbing methods, both costs and emission levels could be lowered and the companies could escape the EPA's vicious cycle.
And lastly, though the Clean Air Act and the EPA's Emission standards may be helping our enviornment, its putting another heavy burndern on our already weak economy.
The regulations the EPA enforces are costly, in March 2011, EPA issued the Prospective Report which looked at the results of the Clean Air Act from 1990 to 2020. According to this study, the direct benefits from the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments are estimated to reach almost $2 trillion for the year 2020, a figure that dwarfs the original costs of implementation ($65 billion). Thanks for letting us know, EPA.
Now we can be a econimically crippled country AND breath clean air.