Excerpt:
This site provides background information on clean air legislation and related efforts to enforce a reduction of pollutants in our atmosphere. It also serves as an introduction to a threaded discussion group on this subject that is being conducted by the American Meteorological Society.
Annotation:
This site focuses on the history of environmental legislation in the United States that sought to reduce airborne pollutants from motor vehicles, utilities, factories and other industrial sources. It begins with the Air Pollution Control Act of 1955 and follows clean air initiatives, including major legislation of 1963, 1970 and 1990, to the present day. The site has useful biographies of the various acts' congressional sponsors and scientific advisors, as well as notes on those who opposed the legislation. In addition, there are photographs and satellite images of smog over major cities in the United States and worldwide, a timeline of environmental activism since the second World War, links to the EPA and other sites, and excerpts from Senator Edmund S. Muskie's Archives at Bates College. The authors of the site also wish to expand the historical record by recording the personal recollections of those involved with the debate over clean air, as well as any documents or photographs they might have.