Sunday 26 March 2017

ACHIEVING A HEALTHY ENVIRONMENT THROUGH THE ESTABLISHMENT OF NATIONAL AMBIENT AIR QUALITY STANDARDS (NAAQS) ACT:

Your environment is everything around you and the air you breathe, the water you drink, the community you live in, the places where your food is grown or prepared, your workplace, and your home should be of immense importance to us. When your environment is safe and healthy, you are more likely to stay healthy. But when your environment exposes you to dangerous events or toxic substances, your health can be negatively affected.
To this end, the call for the establishment of an act to be known as the" Clean Air Act" is now very imperative at this time of our living to set adequate national/State air quality standards for  particulate matter and five other pollutants that are considered silent killers that are harmful to Public Health and the Environment.
The law should require the Ministries Of Environment to periodically review the standards to ensure that they provide adequate Environmental Health protection, and to update those standards as when necessary and where applicable.

"CRITERIA" AIR POLLUTANTS:
These are pollutants that cause dangerous Health effects on Public Health or welfare.
 The term "criteria pollutants" was used to name them because of their latest scientific information related to public  Health, welfare and safety.
The said Clean Air Act should require the Federal Ministries of Environment to set National Ambient Air Quality Standards(NAAQS) to be established by the Ministries of Environment through the relevant legislative Houses in states and the Federal levels so as to set for enforcement Maximum allowable concentrations of some pollutants in our outdoor air quality. The "Criteria Pollutants" are silent killers and pollutants that are often present and very dangerous to public Health. They are:
1.) Carbon monoxide
2.) Lead
3.) Ground level Ozone
4.) Nitrogen dioxide
5.) Particulate matter and
6.) Sulfur dioxide.

The said standards should be  set at a level that would really protect the general public (Public Health) with an adequate margin of safety.
These aforesaid pollutants are silent killers that can harm your health and the environment, and they also cause property damage.
These pollutants are particulate matter, photochemical oxidants (including ozone), carbon monoxide, sulfur oxides, nitrogen oxides, and lead.  They are mostly called "Criteria Pollutants.

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