Are there any laws currently for air pollution?

Question

Are there any local, national, or global laws or regulations regarding air pollution or on any carbon emitting machinery?

Answer 1

Yes, most industrialized nations have federal laws governing air emissions from industrial activity, and many state (or province or other organized subsidiary governments) and municipailities also possess regulations or laws governing emissions. It is difficult to generalize because each government functions in its own special way in addressing these issues. Even vehicle exhausts are governed by some of these governments.

Usually the laws work by identifying specific pollutants and providing allowable limits for discharges of these pollutants, both in terms of concentration of the target pollutant at any give point in time, and in terms of total cumulative amounts of the target pollutants that are allowed for a given period (1 hour, 4 hour, 8 hour and-or 24 hour limits are typical). The cumulative values are always less than would be allowed under emission at the maximum permitted amount under a shorter time span. (for example, the 4 hour limit might be 10 kg of a pollutant but the 8 hour limit would be only 16 kg, say).

CO2 emissions are less commonly governed because CO2 is a naturally occurring substance that was not perceived until very recently to be a substance that had a negative impact on human health, the biosphere, or general quality of the environment, which are the main reasons that laws and regulations limit discharges of targeted pollutants.

I personally am not convinced that CO2 is a substance that has an adverse affect on the quality of the environment and therefore am against placing limitations on such discharges. Other people disagree and there are trends toward legislating the amount of CO2 emissions that are allowed from given activities.

Answer 2

The Air Pollution Control Rules have been adopted pursuant to Part 55, Air Pollution Control, of the Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Act, 1994 PA 451, as amended (Act 451).

see:
http://www.unece.org/env/lrtap/lrtap_h1.htm
http://www.imo.org/Conventions/contents.asp?doc_id=678&topic_id=258

Answer 3

Yes
Lots of rules about how much your car can contribute to pollution, factory smokestacks, and wood burning home furnaces in some areas.

Look at
epa.gov
for a start

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Answer 5

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