An airborne toxic control measure is a regulatory or technical intervention implemented by governmental or institutional actors to reduce emissions, ambient concentrations, or human exposure to hazardous air pollutants in outdoor or indoor environments. As a human activity, it encompasses the design, adoption, and enforcement of rules, standards, and operational practices targeting specific toxic substances, emission sources, or processes. These measures may include emission limits, technology requirements, operational restrictions, monitoring and reporting obligations, and compliance programs, all aimed at mitigating adverse health and ecological effects associated with inhalation or deposition of airborne toxic contaminants.
China's sweeping efforts to clean up its air have delivered one of the biggest public health success stories of recent decades. Since the Air Pollution Prevention and Control Action Plan was launched in 2013, coal-fired power ...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is allowing implementation of a 2024 hazardous air pollution rule that imposed new emission control and monitoring requirements on facilities like the U.S. Steel's Clairton Coke Works, ...
Environment
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A study by scientists at NTU Singapore has found that implementing robust air pollution control measures could mean Southeast Asian countries prevent as many as 36,000 ozone-related premature deaths each year by 2050.
Environment
May 21, 2025
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A transdisciplinary team of AMBER and CRANN researchers from the School of Chemistry at University College Cork (UCC) and the School of Physics at Trinity College Dublin (TCD) has developed sensor technology for wearable ...
Nanomaterials
Jan 31, 2025
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Researchers at the Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science developed a toxic gas sensor with the world's highest sensitivity. This sensor can precisely monitor nitrogen dioxide (NO2), a toxic gas in the atmosphere, ...
Nanomaterials
Dec 29, 2023
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Over the past decade, fine dust conditions in Korea have worsened, as perceived by the general public, with an increase in the number of days per year featuring high-concentration fine dust. Additionally, the previous maximum ...
Nanomaterials
Nov 20, 2023
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