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Regulation Greatly Reduced Air Pollution
Diverse Syndicate/Group 5
Acintya Anindita 29110304Aulia Wiryoatmojo 29110307
Danny Kartika 29110338Deru R Indika 29110301
Oliver Jost 29110324Shierly 29110311
EPA Regulation (Clean Air Act of 1990) Effect
Ozone Advisory• Philadelphia during summer had just 7 days compared with 23 during
summer 1988• New York City had just 4 days compared 21 days in summer 1988• Washington had just 1 days compared with 12 days in summer 1988• In Los Angeles, ozone reading declined steadyly during the past decade
Carbon Monoxide Standard• New York City have none out of compliance in 1992 compared to 72
days during 1985• Replacement the older automobiles and trucks with newer and less
polluting ones reduced level of air pollution in American cities (In 1999 automobile emit less 1 percent of the pollution emited by the average 1970 automobiles
EPA Plan For Higher Clean Air Standards
A sharp reduction of sulfur in gasoline
Requiring sport utility vehicles, minivans, and pickup trucks to meet the same tailpipe emission requirements as automobiles, as well reducing further automobiles
emissions
Requiring electrical generating plants to use cleaner energy sources
Industrialist concern: Deminishing Return cause of reduce pollution
Positive return with increase in amount of pollution removed
Deminishing positive return with increase in amount of pollution removed
Positive return plateaus and more pollution removed does not have positive income
More pollution removed lead to negative income
Output per period of time
Unit of inputs per period of time
DebateThe annual savings in medical bills far exceed the cost of
cleaner air
The extra benefits do not justify the extra
costs
Externalities
Externalities
Future Clean Air Act
Cost of more than $50
billion
$100 billion in annual benefits
Cut Air Pollution by more than
60%
2015Estimated
result
RecommendationThe EPA Regullation lead company cost become higher in short time, but in the long term company Long Average Cost will become low cause the excess par of employe maintaining health office over environment cost and technology improvement
To help companies and prevent the cost held by consumer is need government support and subsidies to company that run the regullation
Thankyou