Clean Air Act (1963, 1970, 1990)
The 1970 Clean Air Act and major amendments to the act in 1977 and 1990 serve as the backbone of efforts to control air pollution in the United States. This law esta...
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Clean Air Act
The 1970 Clean Air Act (CAA), significantly amended in 1977 and again in 1990, regulates air pollution emissions from "stationary" sources (e.g., factories, smokestacks, et...
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Michigan and eight other states sued the Bush administration Tuesday, saying the White House failed to adequately regulate emissions of mercury and other pollutants at cement plants.The states cont...
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Congressional Democrats on Thursday announced an investigation of the Environmental Protection Agency's refusal to let California implement its tailpipe emissions law, the first step in what will l...
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A week after the U.S. Supreme Court said vehicle carbon dioxide emissions can be regulated like other pollutants, an effort by several states to do that is about to get its first court test.Califor...
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Washington (dpa) - The US Supreme Court declared global warming a
serious and urgent problem in its first ever ruling on the subject
Monday.
The heavily divid...
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Los Angeles (dpa) - Residents of Los Angeles can breathe a sigh of
relief - or perhaps not. Their city was bestowed with the dubious
honour Tuesday of having the most pollut...
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The Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday it will rule by the end of the year on California's long-standing petition to implement greenhouse gas reductions on automobiles.The law can't take...
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The Bush administration's rejection of state efforts to tighten rules on greenhouse gas emissions touched off a flurry of counterattacks Thursday. Democrats in Congress began an investigation. Gove...
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