In the 70s the government created the clean air act to regulate the pollutants that could cause damage to human health. Now the Environmental Protection Agency is proposing a list of carbon dioxide and other greenhouses and adding to the Clean Air Act. The EPA is afraid that impacts would cause serious health problems and increase the risk of more natural disasters. The EPA feel s if they declare global warming a health threat they could make better use of the Clean Air Act. There are other supporters and also those that criticize the plan.
Barrack Obama wants the EPA to review what Bush did when he denied California and other states from the right to control auto emissions along with other pollutants that are a major source of greenhouses gases. The Supreme Court supported the federal government to regulate the greenhouse gas under the Clean Air Act which Bush administration didn’t want to regulate. The Obama administration wanted to put mandatory limits on heat trapping emissions which he addressed to congress. There are critics out there that say that if smaller sources from gas station to power plants with a lot of federal rules. The supporters believe that the clean air act could be changed to exclude smaller ones and concentrate on larger facilities like power plants.
I agree it will require a lot of new permits and it might slow the economic recovery but if they try to work on the large plants that throw out a lot of pollutants. At least it will be a start to control the problem. How do we regulate the small places like gas stations that throw out pollutants without putting them under heavy restrictions? I think it is important to keep the green house gas under the control and keep our air clean. If don’t put restrictions on companies they will continue to throw out pollutants.
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I agree with you that it would be a lot of work. I think that keeping greenhouse gases and such under control is very important. Going green seems to be the new thing to do.. but at some point companies will need to start admitting to the harm they have done to the earth.
Federal regulation of smaller companies is very difficult to proceed with. I agree with the idea that if we cannot focus our entirety on the smaller companies than lets constrict the large corporations from polluting as well. The EPA has a very difficult task list. Possible expansion of regulatory expansions or a waste quota list might help initiate cleaner waste removal. Overall any advancement in this field will help.
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