Monitoring and Air Quality Trends Report

Monitoring and Air Quality Trends Report
Author: U. S. Environmental Protection Agency
Publisher: BiblioGov
Total Pages: 406
Release: 2013-07
Genre:
ISBN: 9781289201128

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was introduced on December 2, 1970 by President Richard Nixon. The agency is charged with protecting human health and the environment, by writing and enforcing regulations based on laws passed by Congress. The EPA's struggle to protect health and the environment is seen through each of its official publications. These publications outline new policies, detail problems with enforcing laws, document the need for new legislation, and describe new tactics to use to solve these issues. This collection of publications ranges from historic documents to reports released in the new millennium, and features works like: Bicycle for a Better Environment, Health Effects of Increasing Sulfur Oxides Emissions Draft, and Women and Environmental Health.

National Urban Air Quality Trends, 1974-1983

National Urban Air Quality Trends, 1974-1983
Author: Tom Furmanczyk
Publisher:
Total Pages: 80
Release: 1986
Genre: Law
ISBN:

The air quality data analysed in this report were provided by the NationalAir Pollution Surveillance monitoring network, which maintains airmonitoring stations in most Canadian cities with populations of over 50,000. The periods for which valid national data are available and the pollutantsconsidered are: sulphur dioxide, 1974 - present; nitrogen dioxide, 1977 -present; carbon monoxide, 1974 - present; ozone, 1979 - present; suspendedparticulate, 1974 - present; lead, 1974 - present; soiling index, 1974 -present. Monitoring data were analyzed to determine trends in nationalaverage annual concentrations of these contaminants, and were alsocompared with the National Ambient Air Quality Objectives.