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The Air We Breathe: Benefits of the Clean Air Act
1. The Air we Breathe
Clean Air Act and Air Pollution
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2. Goal
Has always been to protect public health and
welfare nationwide
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3. Why we should do it
Keeps us living a longer and
healthier life.
Industries such as, farming,
fishing, and tourism benefit
from clean air & water.
Property values increase.
There are those who just
wish for the best for our.
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4. What does it do:
1. Itrequires the EPA(United States EnvironmentalProtection Agency) to
establish air quality standards for common to widespread pollutants
using our latest science
2. Itrequires state, local, tribal and federalgovernments to work together
for the goal of cleaner air.
3. Itprovides industry with varies methods on ways to controltoxic
emissions all while maintaining accountability for achieving reductions.
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5. The 3 Buts/Cons
1. The regulation offers no enticement or motivation, such as a reward to improve the quality of the
environment. Once the standardhas been met polluters have zero reason to do better.
2. As standardsare the same worldwide all polluters, and pollution-control technology would find it easy
and inexpensive to hit the standardor reduce pollution even further, while firms that find it difficult and
expensive to meet the standard.Firms have no reason to rethink their production methods in
fundamental ways that might reduce pollution even more and at lower cost.
3. Since these regulationsare written by legislators and the EPA, they tend to decide on these standards
throughpolitical processes. Which, is arguingor lobbying the stricter standardsshouldn’tbe applied to
them. Which is possible the environmental laws are full of fine print, loopholes, and exceptions.
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9. Specific
Benefits
• In a 2011 peer review conducted by the EPA, found that,
there were reductions in fine particle pollution and
ozone pollution since the Clean Air Act
• It has also prevented more than 130,000 heart attacks
160,000 premature deaths, millions of respiratory
problems(ex. asthma attacks).
• It has prevented 13 million lost workdays, improved
worker productivity.
• It has prevented 3.2 million lost school days due to
diseases caused by air pollution, which keeps our kids
healthy as well.
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10. Non-
Specific
Benefits
With fewer illnesses caused by pollution there will be
less money to be spent on its medical treatment and
the workforce absence rate will go down.
Also, the money we have been spending on reducing
pollution doesn’t disappear, but goes to companies
that have been creating, and operating pollution
reducer processesand equipment's/machines.
Money spent by varies companies in hopes of reducing
pollution has created jobs as well in the following
careers: construction, operation, engineering,
maintenance, materials, and manufacturing.
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