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Air Pollution Control - The Basic Facts
Air pollution control is quickly taking the front seat in the world of greenhouse issues.
Both China and the United States lead the way as the two major global producers of greenhouse gas carbon dioxide. An interesting fact is that Americans are producing five times the amount of the toxin as the average Chinese. Unless something is done immediately, with with a population peak of 1.5 billion people, China estimated to quickly catch up by the year 2050.
In order to improve the lives and health of their own citizens, both countries are making serious commitments regarding air pollution control strategies. The latest medical research and studies emphasize its immediate control.
A recent article by HealthDay reporter, Steven Reinberg, states that "free radicals attached to small particles of air pollution are found to be the cause of lung damage and possibly lung cancer." H. Barry Dellinger is considered the study's leading researcher, and also the chair of Patrick F. Taylor's environmental chemistry at the Louisiana State University, with these latest finds explaining why many nonsmokers are developing "tobacco-related" diseases, such as lung cancer.
The disturbing issue is that absolutely none of this was ever necessary. We would have no real need for air pollution control, were it not for the Industrial Revolution and our dependency on the rapid growth of industrialization results of that era.
On its own, every twenty-days our planet receives enough sunlight energy that matches in quantity and surpasses in quality the entire planetary reserves of coal, oil, and natural gas. The problem exists from our own doing, and we need to deal with it through the best forms of air pollution control we can.
The latest developing control strategies are being developed and applied through mandatory air pollution control agendas, utilizing single or a combination of individual measures.
Different forms of air pollution control can either focus on one pollutant, several pollutants, sources of air pollution, or can be implemented within a wide range of scales—global, international, local, national, or regional. And truth be known—all of them are extremely necessary to achieve the world's goal of clean air for our own safety.
Some different forms of strategies to prevent air pollution are energy efficiency, changes in technological processes, coatings without solvents, and reducing manufacturing and mobile source sector emissions to counteract continuous population growth and economic development on a worldwide level.
The United States Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Air and Radiation (OAR) sets the regulations for controlling air pollution and radiation exposure, in addition to developing national programs and technical policies. Their primary concerns deal with preventing pollution and energy efficiency.
They also are concerned with many other issues:
- Indoor and outdoor air quality
- Industrial air pollution
- Pollution from vehicles and engines
- Radon
- Acid rain
- Stratospheric ozone depletion
- Climate change
- Radiation protection.
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