Messaging Miracle (VIDEO): Obama Says GOP Plan is “Dirtier Air, Dirtier Water”

The Obama Administration has found a winning talking point on their Jobs plan.  To focus on how the Republican plan is "Dirtier Air, Dirtier Water" .. etc ..

 

Top Official: 'The EPA Is Back On The Job'

The Environmental Protection Agency released a long-secret document last week that reveals the agency's conclusions on global warming while President Bush was in office. The December 2007 document says greenhouse gases are dangerous and need to be regulated under the Clean Air Act.
"The Bush administration never accepted the need to regulate greenhouse gases," EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson tells Liane Hansen. "That's why the endangerment finding was never released."
The agency's decision to release that "endangerment finding" now highlights the stark differences between the EPA under Bush and the EPA under President Obama.

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http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=113884818

U.S. Geological Survey: Acid Rain Monitoring

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U.S. Geological Survey: Acid Rain Monitoring

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On-line data and reports on acid rain, atmospheric deposition and precipitation chemistry.

U.S. EPA ’s Aerometric Information Retrieval System (AIRS)

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U.S. EPA ’s Aerometric Information Retrieval System (AIRS)

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Apparently this is a project which existed at one time and has morphed into four services as described below.

In 2001, EPA changed the Aerometric Information Retrieval System (AIRS) to a database that is solely related to tracking the compliance of stationary sources of air pollution with EPA regulations: the Air Facility Subsystem (AFS). With this change in focus, administration of the AIRS/AFS database was transferred to EPA's Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance. For more information, see:

Air Facility Subsystem (AIRS/AFS): Database overview, contacts, technical support phone number.
Compliance and Enforcement Data Systems: Other databases administered by the Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance.

Information about air monitoring - the ambient concentrations of air pollutants - was moved out of AIRS to a separate database: the Air Quality System (AQS). For more information see:

Air Quality System (AQS): Database overview, memos, contacts.
AirData Web Site: Reports and maps of air monitoring annual summary data.

United Nations Convention on Long Range Transboundary Air Pollution’s Web site

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United Nations Convention on Long Range Transboundary Air Pollution’s Web site

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Since 1979 the Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution has addressed some of the major environmental problems of the UNECE region through scientific collaboration and policy negotiation. The Convention has been extended by eight protocols that identify specific measures to be taken by Parties to cut their emissions of air pollutants.

The Convention, which now has 50 Parties identifies the Executive Secretary of UNECE as its secretariat.

The aim of the Convention is that Parties shall endeavour to limit and, as far as possible, gradually reduce and prevent air pollution including long-range transboundary air pollution. Parties develop policies and strategies to combat the discharge of air pollutants through exchanges of information, consultation, research and monitoring.