... accomplish a majority of the reduction goals. In order to meet the reduction goals set forth by Title IV of the CAA, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) implemented the "Acid Rain Program". Unlike previous EPA programs, it allows industry to choose compliance options by allowing the active trading of emission allowances or "credits" to minimize compliance costs. Traditional compliance ... programs have implemented stringent "command and control" methods. These methods establish inflexible emission standards to which all effected sources had to comply. Under the Acid Rain Program's ...

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... into account both the available evidence and the inevitable scientific uncertainties." Secondary NOx concerns include its contributions to acid rain, deterioration of water quality, and atmospheric visibility. NOx, when reacting with sulfur dioxide forms acid rain, which deteriorates cars, buildings, trees and historical monuments. Acid rain also makes lakes acidic, killing fish and harming water sources. This is turn deteriorates water quality and ... to pressure compliance through sanctions or the withholding of federal funds, as present policies now dictate. NOx Allowance Trading Due ...

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... Nitrogen Dioxide are irritants to the lungs, which can aggravate respiratory problems, in addition to being the main cause of smog alerts in urban areas. It also is a precursor of acid rain and contributes to an over-fertilization of small water bodies which can led to algae blooms ()footnote of the nitrogen cycle. Sulfur Dioxide causes lung irritation and ... acid rain like Nox but it also interferes with a car part (i.e. catalytic converter) that gives the car the ability to reduce emissions. Some cleaner, reformulated versions of gasoline have very low sulfur ... ...

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 Air pollution is most commonly associated with acidic precipitation, smog, and the depletion of our ozone layer. Acid rain is one of the biggest air quality problems that upstate New York deals with, especially the Adirondack Mountains. The main cause of acidic rain is the emissions of gases like SO2 and NOx These emissions are given off into the environment mostly from the ... ...

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... and federal regulators have sought for years to cut sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions from power plants in the eastern US. The emissions blow downwind and cause smog and acid rain (Eilperin). "In striking down a costly EPA rule for power plants, today's federal appeals court ruling accomplishes two useful things. First, it lessens the harm to the reliability of the nation ... ...

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... standard for heavy-duty diesel engines used in trucks and buses that becomes affected with the 2004 model year. The nitrogen oxides reductions also will reduce nitrate particulate matter and acid rain. The agency in its second rule proposed standards for most non-road equipment with diesel engines. Over a half a million of the engines are sold each year and used in a wide ... ...

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... " (Keller, 262). "...the atmosphere will...need to be regulated as a global trust if the human community is to entertain any possibility of addressing the problems of global warming, ozone depletion, acid rain, and air pollution. In June 1988, the prime ministers of Norway and Canada proposed a "Law of the Air" treaty to protect the atmosphere from global warming and ozone depletion.[The ... ...

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... " (Keller, 262). "...the atmosphere will...need to be regulated as a global trust if the human community is to entertain any possibility of addressing the problems of global warming, ozone depletion, acid rain, and air pollution. In June 1988, the prime ministers of Norway and Canada proposed a "Law of the Air" treaty to protect the atmosphere from global warming and ozone depletion.[The ... ...

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