Systematic presentation of the clean air policy individual OECD member states. Country report for the United States of America

The knowledge about the special structures and basic ideas of the national policies on air pollution control constitutes the precondition for an international consensus on the policy on air pollution. Therefore all important fields have been collected for the OECD country United States of America. The aspects also include the strategies of the individual country. Clear differences become evident when immission and emission standards are set up, and when principle of prevention resp. the polluter-pays-principle is applied.