Environmental Laws: Summaries of Statutes Administered by the Environmental Protection Agency
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A dozen major statutes form the legal basis for the programs of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Many of these have been amended several times. The current provisions of each are briefly summarized in this report. The Pollution Prevention Act (PPA) seeks to prevent pollution through reduced generation of pollutants at their point of origin. The Clean Air Act (CAA) requires EPA to set mobile source limits, ambient air quality standards, hazardous air pollutant emission standards, stand…
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Date:
March 31, 2005
Creator:
Fletcher, Susan R.
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UNT Libraries Government Documents Department