The legacy of the Great Smog was the Clean Air Act of 1956 which introduced a number of measures to reduce air pollution.
So in the Clean Air Act of 1990, he proposed a plan that would cap sulfur-dioxide emissions but let the market decide how to allocate the permits.
Media-fueled alarm about acid rain provided a basis for legislation to create markets for buying and selling excess sulfur dioxide (SO2) and nitrogen dioxide emission credits, and Project 88 became the Clean Air Act of 1990.
The senator, of course, had a distinguished military record, served as secretary of the navy under Nixon and helped to draft some important pieces of legislation, including the Clean Air Act of 1990 (he was a strong environmentalist).
Simply put, the time is overdue to implement the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990.
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Tonawanda Coke Corp. was found guilty Thursday in federal court of 11 counts of violating the Clean Air Act and three counts of violating the Resource Conservation and Recovery act.
The cap-and-trade program for carbon dioxide is modeled, generally, after an existing one to cut sulfur dioxide one that was enacted in 1990 as part of the Clean Air Act with the approval of the elder President Bush.
This was the most recent in a string of changes the Bush administration has made to the Clean Air Act rules at the request of industry.
Under the authority of amendments to the Clean Air Act, the EPA mandates the use of cellulosic biofuels and fines refiners for failing to use the mandated amount.
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Moreover, regulation of CO2 under the Clean Air Act would open a Pandora's box of enforcement questions, which would bring at least one certainty: lawsuits.
Shrouded under the ever- expanding blanket of the Clean Air Act, it is being applied to validate an unprecedented regulatory takeover of carbon-emitting energy and construction industry permitting.
Operating through permitting authority asserted under auspices of its Clean Air Act, the agency will now have a major say in the design of every major project in which fossil fuel is combusted or CO2 emissions are released.
"The text of the Clean Air Act makes plain that Congress intended it as a measure to 'clean' the air of pollutants, not to alter the overall composition of the Earth's atmosphere, " argues the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, an auto industry lobbying group, in a brief.
Cheap gas and environmental legislation under the Clean Air Act, aimed at emissions of sulphur dioxide, nitrous oxide and mercury (but not carbon dioxide) from dirty coal plants, accelerated a trend that is set to continue.
His Environmental Protection Agency is now instituting it via a broad reading of the Clean Air Act.
There was no promise of a Clean Air Act or tough new powers for China's environmental authorities, just the promise to do better.
For a decade now, the Environmental Protection Agency has been using a provision of the Clean Air Act to force dirty, older power plants to clean up.
The EPA is the lead agency for suspension and debarment matters regarding BP and has the authority to disbar individuals and companies under sections of the Clean Air Act and the Clean Water Act.
In 2002, the state assembly passed a law regulating emissions of CO2 from vehicles, based on a provision of the Clean Air Act that allows California to adopt stricter pollution standards than the federal government (other states can then choose to follow the Californian standards if they wish).
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The basic question before the court: What are the requirements of the Federal Clean Air Act?
The good news is that most metros and counties around the country have been improving their air quality, thanks in part to support from the EPA and the implementation, albeit slow, of the 1990 Clean Air Act.
The rule, which operates under the Clean Air Act, does not stipulate a lower level of carbon output.
The Clean Air Act gives affected sources three years from the issuance of the final rules to comply with the regulations.
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The president can argue that he is endorsing policies that create jobs while also reducing the level of pollutants regulated under the Clean Air Act.
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And 20 years ago, the utility industry, warnings of huge losses from the Clean Air Act, won concessions greatly reducing their obligations to install scrubbers on coal-fired power plants.
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But what they really are looking at is the EPA to soon release or formalize, finalize its carbon-based pollution regulations for future power plants and then to get quickly on the task of putting together some of the regulatory rules under the Clean Air Act for existing power plants.
In economic terms, either system would dwarf the impact of previous big environmental laws, such as the Clean Air Act.
The Clean Air Act, most recently amended in 1990, orders the EPA to regulate emitters of as little as 100 tons of pollutants per year.
Thousands of Beijing residents have had enough and are calling for a Clean Air Act in an online vote on Sina Weibo, Xinhua News Agency reports.
Grandfathered plants, built before the state's Clean Air Act in 1971, are bigger polluters than newer ones, accounting for 36% of the chemicals Texas releases into the atmosphere each year.
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