What are the Montreal Protocol, Clean Air Act and NESHAPs?
In 1987, under the auspices of the United Nations, 46 nations signed the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer. The Protocol required parties to either make sharply reduce or freeze production and consumption of various Ozone Depleting Substances. Additional ODSs were added in various amendments during sessions in London (1990), Copenhagen (1992) Montreal (1997) and Beijing (1999). The Clean Air Act of 1990 was passed to address the various types and sources of air pollution in the United States including smog (ground level ozone) and Hazardous Air Pollutants (HAPs). It gave authority to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to set limits on how much of a pollutant can be in the air anywhere in the United States. Each state has to develop plans to meet these limits or face sanctions and fines by the Federal Government. One of the ways the EPA is working to reduce HAPs is through National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAPs). The EPA ident
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