Clean Air Act (CAA) and Clean Water Act (CWA)

Clean Air Act (CAA) and Clean Water Act (CWA)

This assignment will examine the role of the Clean Air Act (CAA) and Clean Water Act (CWA) in achieving environmental compliance in the United States and the way in which they regulate emissions.
Two case studies, one of airborne lead emissions exceeding EPA limits (Jed, 2014) and one of chemical spills in West Virginia (Cohen & Watkins, 2014) are examples of Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act violations in the United States.
Before starting this assignment please view the Clean Air Act of 1970, and the Clean Water Act (CWA) videos. In a 4-page paper answer the following questions. Justify your responses by presenting a rationale and illustrating it with examples and facts as needed. Support your writing with the literature.
1. Describe the type of pollutants covered by each of the two laws.
2. Compare and contrast the types of standards in the CWA and the CAA. Examples of different types are: best available technology standards, water quality standards, air emission standards, and hazardous air pollution source standards and air quality standards. Are they based on health risk or technological feasibility?
3. For each of the two case studies mentioned in the Case Assignment, explain what aspects of the CAA or CWA were not effective at controlling the pollutant releases into the environment (Cohen & Watkins, 2014; Jed, 2014).