EC238 Chapter Notes - Chapter 17: Dependent And Independent Variables, Hydro One, Criteria Air Contaminants
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A reference level above which there are demonstrable effects on human health and/or the environment. Air quality objectives that provide a level of protection for the general population and the environment that also incorporates the technical feasibility of controlling emissions. Air pollution-control policies in canada: a brief sketch. The clean air act gave the federal government the authority to: Establish guidelines, which we recommended limits on pollutants. The implications are that there is to be a new naaqo framework that has two levels: There are guidelines and standards for emissions of certain air pollutants. Ozone annex to the 1991 canada-u. s. air quality agreement. Canada signed the ozone annex, an agreement with the u. s. to reduce trans boundary smog the overall target is to reduce nox by 44% in the trans boundary region from 2000-2010. In 1998 the federal government and all provinces signed the sub-agreement to the canada-wide. Provinces can design their own policy instruments to reach the targets.
