Once, in the not so distant past, smoke belching from urban factories and plants was viewed as a symbol of a prosperous, growing economy with abundant jobs. However, awareness of the downside of such pollution spawned the environmental movement of the 1960s, culminating in the Clean Air Act Amendment of 1970. This landmark legislation provided the regulatory mandates and legal tools that stimul...

At a time when the Health Effects Institute, Centers for Disease Control, and Environmental Protection Agency are creating an Environmental Public Health Tracking Program on Air Pollution Effects in the USA, it seemed useful to share the experience acquired since 1999 by the Apheis project (Air Pollution and Health-A European Information System), which has tracked the effects of air pollution o...

of Federal Air Pollution Control Legislation Clean Air Amendments, 1965 Authorized federal control of new motor vehicle emissions. Extended federal control to cover international pollution originating in the United States. Clean Air Act of November 21, 1967 Under Public Law 90-148 the states are held responsible for establishing local air quality standards consistent with federal criteria. Clea...

In the paper the problem of the real-time emission control is discussed, where the air quality forecast is based on the regional-scale model of air pollution transport. The problem formulation utilizes the optimal control technique for distributed parameter systems, which is integrated with the governing equations of air pollution dispersion process. The approach presented in the paper is sulfu...

Air pollution issues in South Africa were only brought to public attention in the late 1980’s when concern was expressed over the high emissions from industries on the Highveld (east of Johannesburg). Air pollution issues have since been raised in other parts of the country such as Durban and Cape Town. Although the research and monitoring of air pollution has been largely fragmented and uncoor...

disease rates), and other important factors (e.g., broad changes in regulatory approaches, improvements in control technology) will influence the extent to which exposure to air pollution affects the health of the Asian population over the next several decades. Because the effects on air quality of recent, rapid development are clearly apparent in many of Asia's cities and industrial areas, gov...

O nce a severe but local problem of highly industrialised and densely populated cities, air pollution has now morphed into a more insidious threat to the public health of entire nations. Smoke from domestic coal fires, power plants and heavy industry has largely vanished from our skies. This has been achieved through the use of clean fuels, filtration of flue gases, improvements in process tech...

Increasing concern over the air pollution has forced the man to develop the new technology for the better quality of life. In modern world, air pollution does not need any introduction. One of the major factors responsible for such degradation in the quality of life is air pollution. However, chief among them are carbon monoxide, sulphur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, ozone, etc. Nitrogen dioxide ca...