Assessing the Pollution Efficiency Index Ratings of the Rust Belt Plaintiffs in the Recent Lawsuit Challenging the Clean Air Act Rollback

James Tanoos

doi:https://doi.org/10.14445/22315381/IJETT-V68I2P205

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Volume 68 | Issue 2 | Year 2020 | Article Id. IJETT-V68I2P205 | DOI : https://doi.org/10.14445/22315381/IJETT-V68I2P205

Assessing the Pollution Efficiency Index Ratings of the Rust Belt Plaintiffs in the Recent Lawsuit Challenging the Clean Air Act Rollback

James Tanoos

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James Tanoos, "Assessing the Pollution Efficiency Index Ratings of the Rust Belt Plaintiffs in the Recent Lawsuit Challenging the Clean Air Act Rollback," International Journal of Engineering Trends and Technology (IJETT), vol. 68, no. 2, pp. 24-28, 2020. Crossref, https://doi.org/10.14445/22315381/IJETT-V68I2P205

Abstract

The economic well-being of the Rust Belt geographic region of the United States is reliant on manufacturing output for the strength of their industrial sector.However, four Rust Belt states have recently challenged the rollback of the prior administration’s Clean Air Act, which many pundits indicate is contrary to their economic well-being.This paper will examine that commonly held notion by assessing the pollution records and related economic output of those four plaintiffs located in the Rust Belt versus the plaintiffs located elsewhere in the US.

Keywords

pollution efficiency index, Rust Belt, Clean Air Act, Toxic Release Inventory, manufacturing

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