Air Quality Management in the United States
Air Quality Management in the United States

Author: National Research Council

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 2004-08-30

Total Pages: 426

ISBN-13: 0309167868

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Managing the nation's air quality is a complex undertaking, involving tens of thousands of people in regulating thousands of pollution sources. The authors identify what has worked and what has not, and they offer wide-ranging recommendations for setting future priorities, making difficult choices, and increasing innovation. This new book explores how to better integrate scientific advances and new technologies into the air quality management system. The volume reviews the three-decade history of governmental efforts toward cleaner air, discussing how air quality standards are set and results measured, the design and implementation of control strategies, regulatory processes and procedures, special issues with mobile pollution sources, and more. The book looks at efforts to spur social and behavioral changes that affect air quality, the effectiveness of market-based instruments for air quality regulation, and many other aspects of the issue. Rich in technical detail, this book will be of interest to all those engaged in air quality management: scientists, engineers, industrial managers, law makers, regulators, health officials, clean-air advocates, and concerned citizens.

WHO global air quality guidelines
WHO global air quality guidelines

Author: Weltgesundheitsorganisation

Publisher: World Health Organization

Published: 2021-09-07

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 9240034226

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The main objective of these updated global guidelines is to offer health-based air quality guideline levels, expressed as long-term or short-term concentrations for six key air pollutants: PM2.5, PM10, ozone, nitrogen dioxide, sulfur dioxide and carbon monoxide. In addition, the guidelines provide interim targets to guide reduction efforts of these pollutants, as well as good practice statements for the management of certain types of PM (i.e., black carbon/elemental carbon, ultrafine particles, particles originating from sand and duststorms). These guidelines are not legally binding standards; however, they provide WHO Member States with an evidence-informed tool, which they can use to inform legislation and policy. Ultimately, the goal of these guidelines is to help reduce levels of air pollutants in order to decrease the enormous health burden resulting from the exposure to air pollution worldwide.

Assessment of the Department of Veterans Affairs Airborne Hazards and Open Burn Pit Registry
Assessment of the Department of Veterans Affairs Airborne Hazards and Open Burn Pit Registry

Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 2017-04-28

Total Pages: 253

ISBN-13: 0309451175

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Military operations produce a great deal of trash in an environment where standard waste management practices may be subordinated to more pressing concerns. As a result, ground forces have long relied on incineration in open-air pits as a means of getting rid of refuse. Concerns over possible adverse effects of exposure to smoke from trash burning in the theater were first expressed in the wake of the 1990â€"1991 Gulf War and stimulated a series of studies that indicated that exposures to smoke from oil-well fires and from other combustion sources, including waste burning, were stressors for troops. In January 2013, Congress directed the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to establish and maintain a registry for service members who may have been exposed to toxic airborne chemicals and fumes generated by open burn pits. Assessment of the Department of Veterans Affairs Airborne Hazards and Open Burn Pit Registry analyzes the initial months of data collected by the registry and offers recommendations on ways to improve the instrument and best use the information it collects. This report assesses the effectiveness of the VA's information gathering efforts and provides recommendations for addressing the future medical needs of the affected groups, and provides recommendations on collecting, maintaining, and monitoring information collected by the VA's Airborne Hazards and Open Burn Pit Registry.

Handbook of Air Pollution Analysis
Handbook of Air Pollution Analysis

Author: Roy M. Harrison

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 642

ISBN-13: 9400940831

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The contributing authors have been chosen because of their depth of knowledge and experience in air pollution work, and we are confident that this is reflected in a Handbook which will find very wide application wherever air pollution analysis is practised. Roy M. Harrison Roger Perry February 1985 Readers are recommended to follow all the usual laboratory safety pre cautions. While care has been taken to ensure that the information in this book is correct, neither the authors nor the publisher can accept responsibility for any outcome of the application of methods and procedures outlined in this book. Contributors A. Apling BSc, PhD Air Pollution Division Warren Spring Laboratory Gunnels Wood Road Stevenage Hertfordshire SG 1 2BX UK H.W. de Koning DSc Environmental Pollution Division of Environmental Health World Health Organization Geneva Switzerland R.M. Harrison PhD Department of Chemistry University of Essex Wivenhoe Park Colchester C04 3SQ UK P.W.W. Kirk BSc, MSc, PhD, DIC, C Chern, MRSC Department of Civil Engineering Imperial College London SW7 2BU UK J.R. Kramer Professor in Geochemistry Department of Geology McMaster University Hamilton Ontario L8S 4Ml Canada J.N. Lester B. Tech, MSc, DIC, PhD, MIPHE, Department of Civil Engineering Imperial College London SW7 2BU UK xxi xxii Contributors A.E. Mcintyre BSc, PhD, DIC, MIWES Consultants in Environmental Sciences Ltd Yeoman House 63 Croydon Road London SW20 7TW UK D.J.

WHO Guidelines for Indoor Air Quality
WHO Guidelines for Indoor Air Quality

Author:

Publisher: World Health Organization

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 488

ISBN-13:

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This book presents WHO guidelines for the protection of public health from risks due to a number of chemicals commonly present in indoor air. The substances considered in this review, i.e. benzene, carbon monoxide, formaldehyde, naphthalene, nitrogen dioxide, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (especially benzo[a]pyrene), radon, trichloroethylene and tetrachloroethylene, have indoor sources, are known in respect of their hazardousness to health and are often found indoors in concentrations of health concern. The guidelines are targeted at public health professionals involved in preventing health risks of environmental exposures, as well as specialists and authorities involved in the design and use of buildings, indoor materials and products. They provide a scientific basis for legally enforceable standards.