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The Clean Air Act (CAA) is the United States' primary federal air quality law, ... Congress passed the first federal legislation to address air pollution in 1955.
The Clean Air Act of 1963 (CAA) was passed as an extension of the Air Pollution Control Act of 1955, encouraging the federal government via the United States Public Health Service under the then-Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW) to encourage research and development towards reducing pollution and working with states to establish their own emission reduction programs.
Congress passed the 1970 Clean Air Act to ensure that the general public was protected from harmful levels of criteria pollutants, established by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The six regulated criteria pollutants include: particulate matter, lead, ozone, NO x, carbon monoxide, and sulfur dioxide. [2]
Clean Air Act; Clean Water Act; Coastal Zone Management Act; Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (Superfund) Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act; Endangered Species Act; Energy Policy Act of 1992; Energy Policy Act of 2005; Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act; Federal Land Policy and Management Act
Section 202(a)(1) of the Clean Air Act requires the Administrator of the EPA to establish standards "applicable to the emission of any air pollutant from…new motor vehicles or new motor vehicle engines, which in [her] judgment cause, or contribute to, air pollution which may reasonably be anticipated to endanger public health or welfare" (emphasis added). [3]
The United States Clean Air Act authorizes California to set and enforce emissions standards more strict than the federal standard, but only if the Environmental Protection Agency grants the state ...
In 1967, the Air Quality Act of 1967 was passed. In 1967, the Air Quality Act was enacted in order to expand federal government activities. In accordance with this law, enforcement proceedings were initiated in areas subject to interstate air pollution transport. This amendment allowed states to enact federal automobile emissions standards.
California established the country's first tailpipe emissions standards in 1966 and is the only state eligible for a waiver to the federal Clean Air Act of 1970, giving the EPA the authority to ...