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274. Ozone
P1 - In Los Angeles, officials plan to ban the 'drive-up' bankteller and the 'drive-thru' McDonald's to combate air pollution.
P2 - Across the US, there is a political will to comply with the provisions of the CAA of 1970. CAA did not described how the air quality standards were to be met or how the offenders would be punished. Hence the Ozone remains at high level of concentration in the air.
P3 - This year many industrialists support the chanegs to the CAA.
P4 - The CAA divides the country into 242 districts and sets limits for 6 key pollutants. Nearly every district meets the standards for the first 4, but almost 100 cities still exceed those for carbon monoxide and ozone. Carbon monoxide can be controlled by swiching automobiles with cleaner engines. Controlling ozone is more complicated.
P5 - In the upper atmosphere ozone is useful for blocking harmful solar rays, but on the ground it destroys molecules important to many biological processes.
P6 - In 1970, the CAA set the safe level of ozone concentration level at 0.12ppm. In a study published last year, some specialists think that a level of 0.8oom all day is harmful.
P7 - The trouble occurs when organic gases, which are mostly hydrocarbons, are present in the process.
P8 - Vehicles produce almost half the hydrocarbons in the air. Industry has two options:
1/ clean the air after the air has absorbed the hydrocarbons, or,
2/ redesign the products and processes so that they emit fewer hydrocarbons.
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