... With the Potential for Equally Great Changes on a Global Scale
Abstract In the summer of 1988, the ozone was in the wrong place. There was too much of it in American cities and not enough over Antarctica. Unusual weather, in combination with auto and other emissions, had led to the highest ozone concentrations in ten years in many cities. The American public ra...
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Oxford University PressNew York, NY
1993
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195077858.003.0008 https://academic.oup.com/book/chapter-pdf/52432192/isbn-9780195077858-book-part-8.pdf |
| Summary: | Abstract In the summer of 1988, the ozone was in the wrong place. There was too much of it in American cities and not enough over Antarctica. Unusual weather, in combination with auto and other emissions, had led to the highest ozone concentrations in ten years in many cities. The American public raised a hue and cry for tougher clean air regulations, many of which had been relaxed in the past decade. Whether the amendments of 1989 to the 1970 Clean Air Act will produce the desired effects remains to be seen. But ozone has disproved the notion that the American public is lethargic on certain environmental matters. Indeed, in both the matter of ozone in urban air and the ozone hole in the stratosphere, the public led its leaders. |
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