The environmental issue has certainly been at the very top of the American agenda, I think, since the mid to late 60s. Public institutions have responded quite noticeably: there has been an outpouring of legislation by the Congress; during the last campaign Vice President Bush made the environment a major issue; the Congress is presently considering some basic revisions to the Clean Air Act; the global environmental issues have seized the attention of heads of state all over the world.
One of the major forms of pollution is air pollution. Air pollution is aggravated because of developments of: increasing traffic, grooving cities, rapid economic development, and industrialization. The Industrial Revolution in Europe in the 19th century saw the beginning of air pollution as we know today, which has gradually become a global problem.
The presence in the atmosphere of the major contaminants in such quality and such duration as is injurious, or tends to be injurious to human or......

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Title: Pollution
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