10:832:302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Indoor Air Quality, Safe Drinking Water Act, National Ambient Air Quality Standards
30 Oct 2017
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But if public roads are the best option, they jam and slow traffic, increasing air pollution: ocean garbage gyres. No one nation has single power to protect entire oceans: depletion of fishing areas. Occupational exposures: new source of pollution: factory farms, pigs, poultry, and cows in confined spaces. Waste produced, easy virus spread and bacteria: workers are often the first to suffer effects of an exposure- serve as guinea pigs, problem also with antibiotics fed to farm animals passing through to people. Moving to clean air: the clean air act: both indoor and outdoor air pollution, the clean air act of 1970, 1. ) Established air quality standards and reduction requirements for car and factory emissions: 2. ) Monitors and regulates 6 common air: 1. ) Sulfur dioxide- produced by combustion of sulfur containing fuels, esp. coal: 3. ) Nitrogen oxides- impacts ozone, acid rain: 4. ) Ozone- produced when sunlight acts on other pollutants: 5. )
