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The "Air Pollution Control Act" is still the state's major air pollution legislation, although it has been significantly amended and expanded since 1954 (see below). Also in 1950s, the state began to take an interest in statewide water quality and water supply issues, passing the "Realty Improvement Sewerage and Facilities Act (1954)" [ 4 ] and ...
Increased population and industrialization after World War II meant that water quality across the United States was in a downward spiral. Catalyzed by the publication of Silent Spring and a Time (magazine) article on the pollution of America's waterway's featuring pictures of the Cuyahoga River on fire, public opinion began to shift decisively in favor of strong governmental action to abate ...
Air Quality Law (Limit Values for Benzene and Carbon Monoxide in Ambient Air) Regulations P.I. 516/2002 Air Quality (Ozone in Ambient Air) Regulations P.I. 194/2004 Control of Atmospheric Pollution (Control of Volatile Organic Compounds Emissions Resulting from the Storage of Petrol and its Distribution from Terminals to Service Stations ...
I vividly remember the first time I heard the expression, “this bill is a solution in search of a problem.” I was a young legislative liaison for a state agency, and we were supporting ...
Air monitors near the New Brunswick campus registered a high of 330 micrograms per cubic meter of particles — about 10 times above New Jersey's air quality standard — over four hours on June 7 ...
The Clean Air Act (CAA) is the United States' primary federal air quality law, intended to reduce and control air pollution nationwide. Initially enacted in 1963 and amended many times since, it is one of the United States' first and most influential modern environmental laws .
The United States Congress has enacted federal statutes intended to address pollution control and remediation, including for example the Clean Air Act (air pollution), the Clean Water Act (water pollution), and the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA, or Superfund) (contaminated site cleanup).
Water quality laws govern the protection of water resources for human health and the environment. Water quality laws are legal standards or requirements governing water quality, that is, the concentrations of water pollutants in some regulated volume of water. Such standards are generally expressed as levels of a specific water pollutants ...