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Summary of the Clean Air Act from the EPA; EPA Enforcement and Compliance History Online; Clean Air Act: A Summary of the Act and Its Major Requirements. Congressional Research Service report, 2022. EPA Alumni Association Oral History Video "Early Implementation of the Clean Air Act of 1970 in California"
Section 202(a)(1) of the Clean Air Act requires the Administrator of the EPA to establish standards "applicable to the emission of any air pollutant from…new motor vehicles or new motor vehicle engines, which in [her] judgment cause, or contribute to, air pollution which may reasonably be anticipated to endanger public health or welfare" (emphasis added). [3]
The Clean Air Act requires state agencies to determine optimal methods of preventing air quality degradation in areas that meet national clean air standards. [2] The Act regulates air quality and establishes National Ambient Air Quality Standards in every state to prevent public health issues. [3] The Act prohibits construction of major air ...
The United States Clean Air Act authorizes California to set and enforce emissions standards more strict than the federal standard, but only if the Environmental Protection Agency grants the state ...
The Clean Air Act also allows other states to adopt California's standards. Since the Clean Air Act was established, the EPA has granted California more than 75 waivers for its vehicle emissions ...
One key piece of litigation related to the Clean Air Act was the 2007 Supreme Court case Massachusetts v. EPA, which in a 5–4 decision, had found that the EPA was mandated by Congress to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and can be sued for failing to enact rules to this end under the Clean Air Act. [2] Massachusetts v.
New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) are pollution control standards issued by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The term is used in the Clean Air Act Extension of 1970 (CAA) to refer to air pollution emission standards, and in the Clean Water Act (CWA) referring to standards for water pollution discharges of industrial wastewater to surface waters.
Title 40 is a part of the United States Code of Federal Regulations.Title 40 arranges mainly environmental regulations that were promulgated by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), based on the provisions of United States laws (statutes of the U.S. Federal Code).