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Goverment Reglations on Climate Change

History of US Goverment Regulations: The United States Government first placed government regulations on pollutants emitted into the atmosphere in 1955, with the Air Pollution Control Act. The goal of this act was to research and technical assist to maintain air pollution at the source. The Air Pollution Control Act of 1955 did very little to prevent air pollution but it did make the government and general population aware of the dangers of air pollution. In 1963, The Air Pollution Control Act was surpassed by the Clean Air Act of 1963 which offered federal research aid, developed state control agencies on pollution and involved the federal government in inter-state pollution issues. In 1965, an amendment was added to the Clean Air Act controlling auto mobile emissions. The Clean Air Act of 1970 is a key milestone for air pollution control in our nation. There are four main sections to this act the first one is it created National Ambient Air Quality Standards. These standards were put into place to protect human and environmental health and well being. The second part of this bill is that the Environmental Protection Agency determined how much pollutions were allowed by companies in different industries and areas in our country. The third section was that to reduce pollution emitted by vehicles by almost ninety percent. The Clean Air Act of 1970 also made it mandatory for states to achieve the standards mention in the Clean Air Act. The last clean air act pass by the US Goverment was passed in 1990. The Clean Air Act of 1990 created progamrs for Acid Depostion Control and a progaram to control 189 toxic poulltants, estbalished pollution permit reuqiements and made authorty more enfroced on poulltion.

Impact Regulations Have Had on our Enviroment

Goverment Regulations have had a huge impact on the helath of our enviorment and the well being of US citizens. One example is that the amount of children with elvauted amount of lead in their blood has droped 84 percent according to the Center of Dease Control and Prevetion. Since 1970 most of the pollutants in the National Ambient Air Quality Standards have seen a large deacres with Carbon Monoxide with a 31% drop, Sulfur Dioxide dwon by 27%, Partical Matter with a decresae of 71% and Lead with a drop of 98%. According to the Journal of American Medical Association due to the Clean air acts regulating carbon monoxide emission 11,700 lives have been saved between 1968-1998. As you can see the Clean Air Act has had a huge impact on enviomrental well being and keeping ushealthy.Even thougt we have came a long way with lowering pollution we still have a long way to go to make our enviorment more healthy. sources: [] [] [] [] []