Question

What are the different types of environmental standards?  Give an example for each type

Answer 1

Answer :-

Environmental Standards :- Setting that follows a set of procedures involving years of scientific research and a series of formal public reviews.

There are basically three types of environmental standards as given below ;

1. Ambient Standard
2. Technology-Based Standard
3. Performance-Based Standard

Ambient Standard;

A standard that designates the quality of the environment to be achieved, typically expressed as a ma allowable pollution level,

Not directly enforceable but services as a target to be achieved.

. An example of this differentiation is the setting of “critical loads” for acidic depositions in various areas of Europe and Asia.

Technology-Based Standard;

A standard that designates the equipment or method to be used to achieve some certain abatement level

Example: Scrubber system in coal-burning power plants.

Performance-Based Standard:

A standard that specifies a pollution limit to be achieved but does not stipulate the technology at the firm limit

Example : Car emission test