Clearing the Air
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is a body that controls and regulates matters that involve the environment in the USA. EPA Is responsible for environmental planning, licensing, regulation of gas emissions, and environmental law. The EPA came up with a policy or an act in 1970 which has gone through a couple of changes over the year that aimed at reducing air pollution (Regulations for Emissions from Vehicles and Engines, 2019). The agency focused on improving welfare and public health through the reduction of pollutants in the air. The EPA noted that vehicle engines are the number one cause of air pollution, and they established some proposals that would reduce the levels of pollution.
The first proposal was the availing of cheaper but safer fuel for the vehicles and either change the old car engines or dispose of them. These proposals were to formulate to ensure that the level of pollutants the care omits in the environment is reduced to low levels that will not harm the environment (Regulations for Emissions from Vehicles and Engines, 2019). The EPA focuses on reducing elements like ozone2, carbon monoxide (CO), nitrogen dioxide (NO2), sulfur dioxide (SO2), lead and particulate matter (PM2.5 and PM10), from the environment as they are harmful to human beings and the deplete the ozone layer resulting to global warming.
I fully support the clean air act proposals to keep our environment clean and safe for everyone. I believe that it is possible to achieve the objectives of the clean air act if the government and the citizens work together. The dangers of polluted air are adverse, and they result in fatalities in the world. Breathing in polluted air can cause cancer and other dangerous respiratory diseases to the individual. The pollutants also cause the depletion of the ozone layer and contribute to global warming, which is affecting the weather, causing floods in some areas, melting of glaciers, and drought in other areas. I believe that the effects of pollution are more adverse than we think and that everything possible should be done to prevent or reduce it.