About the Health Effects Fact Sheets | Hazardous Air …
This health effects notebook contains fact sheets on hazardous air pollutants. These chemicals include volatile organic chemicals, chemicals used as pesticides and herbicides, inorganic chemicals, and radionuclides.
Health and Environmental Effects of Hazardous Air …
People exposed to toxic air pollutants at sufficient concentrations and durations may have an increased chance of getting cancer or experiencing other serious health effects. These health effects can include damage to the immune system, as well as neurological, reproductive (e.g., reduced fertility), developmental, respiratory and other health ...
Managing Air Quality
Hazardous Air Pollutants. Toxic air pollutants, also known as hazardous air pollutants (HAPs), are those pollutants that are known or suspected to cause cancer, other serious health effects (including reproductive effects …
What are Hazardous Air Pollutants? | US EPA
Hazardous air pollutants, also known as toxic air pollutants or air toxics, are those pollutants that are known or suspected to cause cancer or other serious health effects, such as reproductive effects or birth defects, or adverse environmental effects.
Hazardous Air Pollutants | US EPA
Hazardous air pollutants are those known to cause cancer and other serious health impacts. The Clean Air Act requires the EPA to regulate hazardous air pollutants, also known as air toxics, from categories of industrial facilities in two phases.
About Hazardous Air Pollutants | US EPA
Learn more about sources of hazardous air pollutants and their impacts. What are Hazardous Air Pollutants? Health and Environmental Effects; Sources and Exposure; Reducing Emissions; Air Toxics Strategy
Initial List of Hazardous Air Pollutants with Modifications
Under the Clean Air Act, EPA is required to regulate emissions of hazardous air pollutants. This original list included 189 pollutants. Since 1990, EPA has modified the list through rulemaking to include 188 hazardous air pollutants.
Hazardous Air Pollutants
Hazardous air pollutants are those known to cause cancer and other serious health impacts. The Clean Air Act requires the EPA to regulate toxic air pollutants, also known as air toxics, from categories of industrial facilities in two phases.
Original list of hazardous air pollutants | Technology
The Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 List of Hazardous Air Pollutants. NOTE: For all listings above which contain the word "compounds" and for glycol ethers, the following applies: Unless otherwise specified, these listings are defined as including any unique chemical substance that contains the named chemical (i.e., antimony, arsenic, etc.) as ...
Hazardous Air Pollutants: Sources and Exposure | US EPA
About Hazardous Air Pollutants. What are Hazardous Air Pollutants? Health and Environmental Effects; Sources and Exposure; Reducing Emissions; Urban Air Toxics; Hazardous Air Pollutant Data and Control Strategies