Question

Identify three goals of modern-day environmental policies.

Answer 1

• To reduce human and environmental exposure to environmental contaminants to a level that shows acceptable risks to health and the environment.
• To implement the term “source reduction,” which is any practice that either reduces the amount of a pollutant released into the environment or reduces the hazards to public health of such pollutants prior to recycling, treatment, or disposal.
• To promulgate industry-wide standards for direct dischargers of toxic pollutants, requiring the installation of the best available control technology ( Clean Water Act)