Explain the Control of Air Pollution

a. Air belongs to everyone

• Need it to treat air pollution as public problem

b. Air pollution is an inevitable concomitant of modern life 

• Conflict between economic and biological concerns
• Systematic development of policies and programs to conserve the atmosphere for its most fundamental biological function

c. Public policy on pollution can be rationalized through scientific knowledge

• Develop effective control strategies including pollution prevention and minimization and continued improvement and application of control devices and technologies

d. Transfer of pollution from one sector to another is not pollution prevention or abatement

• Example transfer of air pollution to water pollution or soil contamination, etc.
• Clean Air Act and its major amendments provide the regulations related to air
• Quality in the United States.