The Environmental Protection Agency needs to do a better job at enforcing their regulations on greenhouse gases and other environmental issues. The EPA’s regulations could be very beneficial if they were more greatly enforced.
EPA needs to continue to promote even cleaner technology as well as promote voluntary programs to reduce vehicle, engine, and equipment activity. The EPA can promote alternative forms of transportation such as buses, trains, bicycles, and carpooling.
Vehicles and engines need to be better designed to improve transit options. The programs to reduce mobile source pollution need to also address the fuels used by vehicles, engines, and equipment as well as the people who operate them.
If our reliance on mobile sources continues to grow without any further action, the mobile source pollution will eventually start to increase again. The EPA needs to limit or restrict the use of mobile sources since they are the largest contributor to air toxics. These air toxics are pollutants that are suspected to cause cancer or other serious health and environmental effects. The global climate keeps changing due to greenhouse gases that trap heat in the Earth's atmosphere. If the air continues to be polluted and if the climate keeps changing, our environment may eventually die out.
The EPA, combined with the manufacturers of vehicles, engines, and fuel, along with state and local governments, transportation planners, and citizens, need to all work together. We need to make sure that we are improving our air quality and ensuring a future for our planet.
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