Air Pollution
EPA's Strategy and Resources May Be Inadequate to Control Air Toxics Gao ID: T-RCED-92-11 November 12, 1991Toxic air pollution is one of the most significant environmental problems in the United States today, with many toxic air pollutants still unregulated. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is required to regulate 189 of the most hazardous and pervasive air toxics within 10 years. Referring to an earlier report (GAO/RCED-91-143, June 26, 1991) and related work, GAO testified that it believes, as do many others, that good planning and adequate resources are essential to carrying out a program of this magnitude. GAO's work, however, calls into question both the adequacy of EPA's planning and the sufficiency of its requested resources for implementing the air toxics provisions of the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990.