Clean Air Act

{
  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-005147",
  "term": "Clean Air Act",
  "field": "Environment",
  "definition": "1. To improve, strengthen, and accelerate programs for the prevention and abatement of air pollution.\n\n2. The CAA is a federal law passed in 1970 that requires EPA to establish regulations to control the release of contaminants to the air to protect human health and environment.\n\n3. Gives EPA authority to set standards for air quality and to control the release of airborne chemicals from industries, power plants, and cars.\n\n4. The original Clean Air Act was passed in 1963; but our national air pollution control program is actually based on the 1970 version of the law. The 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments are the most far-reaching revisions of the 1970 law. EPA often refers to the 1990 amendments as the 1990 Clean Air Act (http://www.epa.gov/caa/).\n\n5. See http://www.epa.gov/caa/. The Superfund law incorporates those substances listed as hazardous air pollutants under section 112 of the Clean Air Act (CAA) as CERCLA hazardous substances, which is why the CAA is important to Superfund. In addition, Superfund cleanup responses must comply with CAA requirements. The CAA restricts the kinds and amounts of pollutants that may be released into the air and requires permits.\n\n6. The Act that regulates air emissions from area, stationary, and mobile sources. CAA limits the emission of pollutants into the atmosphere in order to protect human health and the environment from the effects of airborne pollution.\n\n7. A law amended by Congress in 1990. Title VI of the Clean Air Act directs EPA to protect the ozone layer through several regulatory and voluntary programs. Sections within Title VI cover production of ozone-depleting substances (ODS), the recycling and handling of ODS, the evaluation of substitutes, and efforts to educate the public.\n\n8. The basis of clean air programs in the United States. The original CAA passed in 1970 and was amended in 1977 and 1990. It is comprised of nine sections or Titles that cover, in order, the National Ambient Air Quality Standards, mobile sources, hazardous air pollutants, acid-deposition control, stationary source operating permits, stratospheric ozone and global climate protection, enforcement, miscellaneous provisions, and clean air research.",
  "abbreviation": "CAA",
  "subject": "Land, waste and cleanup",
  "references": [
    "P.L. 88-206",
    "Waste and Cleanup Risk Assessment Glossary",
    "Superfund for Students and Teachers Glossary",
    "Air Permitting Terms",
    "Superfund Acronyms",
    "RCRA Orientation Manual 2008 Glossary",
    "Ozone Layer Protection Glossary",
    "General Conformity Glossary"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/clean-air-act/"
}