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Main Title Assessment of national and regional acid deposition precursor emission trends {Microfiche}
Author Wilson, James H. ; Pechan, E. H. ; Graves, K.
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Pechan, Edward H.
Graves, Kristin K.
CORP Author Pechan (E.H.) and Associates, Inc., Springfield, VA.;Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, NC. Air and Energy Engineering Research Lab.
Publisher U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Air and Energy Engineering Research Laboratory,
Year Published 1989
Report Number EPA-68-02-3997; EPA/600/8-89/042
Stock Number PB89-180483
Subjects Acid rain--United States ; Acid precipitation (Meteorology)--United States
Additional Subjects National government ; Air pollution ; Sulfur oxides ; Nitrogen oxides ; Trends ; Assessments ; Forecasting ; Comparison ; Sources ; Exhaust emissions ; Combustion products ; Electric power plants ; Smelters ; Regional analysis ; Acid rain ; Volatile organic compounds ; Copper smelters
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NTIS  PB89-180483 Some EPA libraries have a fiche copy filed under the call number shown. 07/26/2022
Collation 136 p. ; 28 cm.
Abstract
The report gives results of an analysis of national and regional acid deposition precursor emission trends, involving SOx, NOx, and VOCs. While the focus is on emissions during 1980-1985, comparisons are made (for perspective) with emission trends for 1940-1980. Study methods integrated data from the U.S. EPA's national emission trends reports, state and regional activity indicators, and plant level data for electric utilities and copper smelters. For 1980-1985, all three pollutants showed both annual declines and increases. For a longer term, emission trends can be divided into three periods: (1) 1940 to the mid-1970s, when emissions increased in proportion to fuel use and the GNP; (2) the late 1970s to the early 1980s, the emissions control era, when Clean Air Act programs produced a downward trend for all pollutants except NOx as the economy continued growing; and (3) since 1980, when relationships between emissions and the economy, fuel use, and regulations are making it more difficult to predict emissions in future years.
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Caption title. "Mar. 1989." "EPA/600/8-89/042." Microfiche.