Clean Air Act: Review and Oversight : Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Clean Air, Wetlands, Private Property, and Nuclear Safety of the Committee on Environment and Public Works, United States Senate, One Hundred Sixth Congress, First Session, October 14, 1999U.S. Government Printing Office, 2000 - Počet stran: 223 |
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Strana 111 - In recent years a great deal of attention has been devoted to the study of parameteric sysems containing both a varying reactive parameter (eg , capacitance) and a varying resistance 1-7].
Strana 94 - Any national secondary ambient air quality standard prescribed, under subsection (a) shall specify a level of air quality the attainment and maintenance of which in the judgment of the Administrator, based on such criteria, is requisite to protect the public welfare from any known or anticipated adverse effects associated with the presence of such air pollutant in the ambient air.
Strana 94 - I will follow that system of regimen which, according to my ability and judgment, I consider for the benefit of my patients, and abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous.
Strana 128 - Report defines sustainable development as "development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs" (World Commission on Environment and Development [WCED], 1987, p.
Strana 89 - Act, the Safe Drinking Water Act. and the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act...
Strana 101 - ... the benefits calculation will shift dramatically as a result. If a human life is valued at $8 million, and if an agency chooses a 10 percent discount rate, 84 947 F.2d 1201 (5th Cir.
Strana 128 - Our Common Future, the 1987 report of the World Commission on Environment and Development (often referred to as the Brundtland Re port, after its chair, the then Prime Minister of Norway).
Strana 131 - Cass R. Sunstein, Reinventing the Regulatory State, 62 U. CHI. L. REV. 1 (1995).
Strana 54 - Communities across the country have benefitted from cleaner air. Since 1990, an unprecedented number of cities have met the health-based national ambient air quality standards. For example, of the 42 carbon monoxide (CO) areas designated as nonattainment in 1991, only 6 areas continue to experience unhealthy levels of CO, which contributes to heart pain, or angina. Energy production and use are major sources of air pollution and its resulting health and environmental effects. The burning of fossil...
Strana 144 - But that sort of situation cannot be universalized: it would be neither possible nor desirable to "leave the world as we found it" in every particular. Most routine natural resources are desirable for what they do, not for what they are. It is their capacity to provide usable goods and services that we value. Once that principle is accepted, we are in the everyday world of substitutions and trade-offs. For the rest of this talk, I will assume that a sustainable path for the national economy is one...