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Clean Air Act 1970

Clean Air Act 1970. Courtney, Alondra, Blanca & Mohammed. What controversy was connected with this law?.

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Clean Air Act 1970

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  1. Clean Air Act 1970 Courtney, Alondra, Blanca & Mohammed.

  2. What controversy was connected with this law? • In October 1948, a thick cloud of air pollution formed above the industrial of Donora, Pennsylvania. The cloud which lingered for five days killed 20 people and caused sickness in 6,000 of the towns there. In 1952 over 3,000 people died in what became known as London’s ‘killer frog” buses could not drive eighter. • This all occurred because of the air pollution going on, events like these alerted us to the danger that air pollution poses to public health. So to stop that that is how they came up with the one and only the (Clean Air Act).

  3. What specifically does this law do? • Well it does allot in the environment to help protect it. It protects it against hazardous or toxic air pollutants that pose health risks such as cancer or environmental threats such as loicumulation of heavy metals. • And not only that but against Acid rain that damages aquatic life forests and property of regional haze. So it does allot and helps the air to be safer and cleaner as well. • The Clean Air Act is the United States de facto national climate law. This means, this gives the government the chance to inform people about the environment and how we can help better ourselves. This gives us environmental justice. For example by limiting power plants and also nation wide steps such as oil refineries. This will reduce costs for us the consumers and also businesses as well.

  4. What impacts has the clean air act had? The impacts The Clean Air Act has, benefited us all. This act has been cutting pollution and has improved the health of Americans. As a result of better health for us, this also means longer lives, & less illnesses in the end. This helps us all, because this shows how a small impact in the environment can better help us in the end. This act has also been seen as a good economic investment for America. As a result has this being a economic investment, this means that scientist have the chance to make more innovations and inventions to benefit the American people. For example creating technologies that can be renewable and also at a great cost. Buy saving us money, and also saving our planet at the same time. Well the clean air act protects many Americans from pollution-related health problems. And also premature death it happens to improve the health and productivity of the U.S work force. Not only that but the clean air act has also been a good economic investment for Americans. Because multiple peer-reviewed economic studies that show the substantial of the public health of the clean air act, they are farther greater costs than achieving them.

  5. The changes we have in he clean air act now !

  6. Sited Sources • http://www.rff.org/Documents/Centers/CCEP/RFF_CAA_web.pdf • http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/planetpolicy/posts/2014/07/17-germany-brazil-climate-renewable-energy-thomson

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