The evolution of global and regional anthropogenic SO2 emissions in the last decade has been estimated through a bottom-up calculation. After increasing until about 2006, we estimate a declining trend continuing until 2011. However, there is strong spatial variability, with North America and Europe continuing to reduce emissions, with an increasing role of Asia and international shipping. China...

To examine the efficacy of China’s actions to control atmospheric pollution, three levels of growth of energy consumption and three levels of implementation of emission controls are estimated, generating a total of nine combined activity-emission control scenarios that are then used to estimate trends of national emissions of primary air pollutants through 2030. The emission control strategies ...

Section 406 of the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments (CAAA) requires that the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) transmit a report to Congress containing a national inventory of annual sulfur dioxide (SO2) emissions from industrial sources, as well as emission projections for the next 20 years, not later than 1995. The requirement stems from the 5.6 million ton emissions cap...

Current regulation aimed at reducing inorganic atmospheric fine particulate matter (PM2.5) is focused on reductions in sulfur dioxide (SO2) and oxides of nitrogen (NO(x) = NO + NO2); however, controls on these pollutants are likely to increase in cost and decrease in effectiveness in the future. A supplementary strategy is reduction in ammonia (NH3) emissions, yet an evaluation of controls on a...

The paper analyzes the cost-efficiency of trading CO2 emissions by focusing on the overall environmental impacts of active climate policy measures. When reducing CO2 emissions, other emissions, also related to the consumption of fossil fuels, decrease with no additional cost. These secondary benefits must be taken into consideration when analyzing gains from international emissions trading. The...

SO2 emissions lead to various harmful effects on environment and human health. The SO2 emission in China has significant contribution to the global SO2 emission, so it is necessary to employ various methods to study SO2 emissions in China with great details in order to lay the foundation for policymaking to improve environmental conditions in China. Network analysis is used to analyze the SO2 e...

Despite the success of the US Environmental Protection Agency’s Acid Rain Program in reducing national sulfur dioxide emissions from electricity generation in a timely and costsaving manner, expected improvements in the environment have not followed in a linear fashion. While ambient sulfur dioxide (SO2) concentrations and acid deposition have decreased across the US, the health and ecological ...

The last decade has seen frequent occurrences of severe air pollution episodes of high loading in SO2 during winters in the North China Plain (NCP). Using satellite data from the Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI), chemistry transport model (GEOS-Chem) simulations, and National Center for Environmental Predication (NCEP) meteorological reanalysis, this study examines meteorological and synoptic ...

the air quality in shiraz was assessed based on a one-week passive sampling campaign.during the first week of the summer 2003, about 400 passive samplers were used in groups of two andthree, so that 187 sampling stations covered all of shiraz. pollutant gases including so2, no2 and btx(benzene, toluene and xylene) were sampled by diffusive sampling tubes. collected samples wereanalyzed and poll...

The manuscript discusses SO2 changes observed by OMI and links them to the national regulations of SO2 emissions. The paper demonstrates again the usefulness of satellite monitoring of air pollutions in China, the world largest SO2 emitter. It is shown that major changes in OMI records are linked to the emission reduction legislation. In general, the paper is well written, although some places ...