Research Paper on:
The Need for Revised Air Quality Regulations

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listed below. Citation styles constantly change, and these examples may not contain the most recent updates. The Shortcomings of the  Clean Air Act Research Compiled by 10/2012 Please   867 715 Implemented in the 1970s, the federal Clean Air Act has definitely  made a positive difference in terms of the quality of the air we breathe. Unfortunately, there is still much to be done in terms of cleaning up our air  quality and insuring a healthy environment for future generations. Many metropolitan areas still fail to meet the most recent clean air standards imposed by the Clean Air Act.  One of the United States biggest problems in terms of air pollution is industrial polluters like power plants. Many of these plants burn  coal and, as a consequence, pump an estimated two billion tons of carbon dioxide into the environment every year (The Natural Resources Defense Council (2012a). One of the primary  concerns with this pollutant and others is the potential for climate change. Climate change can affect our world in a number of adverse ways. What was once a  precise regulator of the climate has now been compounded in its intensity. Instead of preserving the degree of ice coverage over the earth which existing ecologies have evolved in  adaptation to, the greenhouse effect has now been magnified so that it is melting a greater and greater percentage of this ice (Morrison, 2010). The increased concentrations of certain