Assess how technology has mitigated pollution.

Assessment should include specific ways that technology has

• made monitoring air pollution easier
• reduced emissions of hazardous and/or toxic air pollutants
• assisted with fertilizer application and pest management.

Process/Skill Questions:

• What technological innovations help reduce pollution?
• What technology creates pollution problems?
• The Clean Air Act requires the EPA to regulate hazardous air pollutants from large industrial facilities known as major sources in two phases. What are the sources and what are the two phases?
• What are the maximum achievable control technology standards?