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The percentage of poll respondents indicating a great deal of concern about air pollution has dropped dramatically in recent years from a high of 63% in 1989. In a poll conducted in 2003 Gallup asked people their opinion about some specific environmental proposals to help the nation’s energy situation. The results indicated that people strongly favor tougher enforcement of environmental regulations and higher emissions standards for automobiles and business and industry sources. Air Quality 35 CHAPTER 3 THE ENHANCED GREENHOUSE EFFECT AND CLIMATE CHANGE WHAT IS CLIMATE?
S. economy because of CAA programs and regulations. The CAA affected industrial production, investment, productivity, consumption, employment, and economic growth. In fact, the study estimated that total agricultural benefits from the CAA were almost $10 billion. The EPA compared benefits to direct costs or expenditures. 7 trillion. In Two Decades of Clean Air: EPA Assesses Costs and Benefits (1998), the National Conference of State Legislatures used data from the EPA analysis and found that the act produced major reductions in pollution that causes illness and disease, smog, acid rain, haze, and damage to the environment.
This meant that many states were faced with testing that a great number of consumers considered overly restrictive and expensive. The EPA had counted on enforcing the program through sanctions specified by the CAAA, which included cutting off highway money and other federal aid to the states. Some state legislatures, however, seemed willing to forego this aid in what some considered an act of civil disobedience. Rather than provoking a confrontation with the states, the EPA chose to allow greater flexibility in auto emissions testing.