Thursday 14 May 2015

Examples of projects that have been tried outside Egypt to address Air Pollution

        In 1970, the United States created the EPA and passed the Clean Air Act, marking the beginning of the struggle to control pollution. The act originally empowered the EPA to determine safe limits and regulate six major air pollutants, now expanded to include 189 potential threats. Thanks to these tighter regulations and improved technology, the United States has enjoyed huge reductions in airborne lead, sulfur compounds and chlorofluorocarbons. Concentrations of carbon monoxide that was once spewed by every car and truck have dropped by about 90 percent in large American cities. Concentrations of particulate matter, a classification covering a wide range of pollutants in the microscopic to near-microscopic range, have dropped by about 80 percent from their peak, and ozone has dropped as well. The result: from 1980 to 2000, according to a 2009 study in the New England Journal of Medicine, average life expectancy increased five months because of the nationwide drop in air pollution (Berry). The EPA set some of its early pollution standards based on “challenge studies“ in human volunteers. In the 1970s, people with asthma, coronary artery disease and other conditions were exposed to ozone and carbon monoxide in a lab. Their lung capacity dropped and their blood vessels constricted “at lower levels of exposure than had been expected,” says Daniel Greenbaum, president of the Health Effects Institute. As a result, the EPA pushed for stricter standards, and by 1975 catalytic converters were mandatory on new vehicles (Berry). In the case of Egypt, it is plausible and attainable to create such an act that helps in the decrease and prevention of air pollution. Even though the US is a developed country and Egypt is yet a developing country, the basis of such an act could be applied like testing different levels of pollution on certain groups of people an creating new laws for citizens all around Egypt to abide by for a safer and healthier future.


- Amira Badr

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