Hazardous Air Pollutants In The 1970s
In 1970 was the federal first attempt to control hazardous air pollutants (HAP).” The current definition of HAP is a pollutant "known to cause or [that] may reasonably be anticipated to cause adverse effects to human health or adverse environmental effects”. It came in section 112 amendments to clean air. The EPA was required by Section 112 to have a list of hazardous air pollutants that may have would cause to mortalities, fatalities, illnesses or anything that could not be reversed. Once the pollutant list was made, The EPA required that the companies establish and develop health based emissions that provide some sort of safety precaution to protect the public’s health. Substances listed as criteria pollutants and regulated under sections