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EPA's Role in the Pollution Solution
The EPA plays a very important role in the pollution solution through
its involvement and partnerships with other government agencies, industry
and community.
EPA’s involvement in the pollution solution includes:
- Enforcing pollution emission
limits on cars, trucks and factories;
- Developing State Environmental Protection Policies (SEPP): these
set rules that cars, trucks, factories and businesses must follow to
minimise pollution;
- Managing Air Monitoring Stations, which helps EPA monitor the
health of the air;
- Talking with community, industry and government;
- Supporting education campaigns;
EPA also forecasts smog days for Melbourne. Smog
alerts are issued to the media a day before they are expected. These
alerts are often shown on the TV news and in local papers.
On Smog Alert days people are asked to:
- Reduce car usage;
- Limit use of wood fires; and
- Not burn off or light incinerators.
The smog alert days also act as warnings for
people with respiratory and cardiovascular disease.
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