The Clean Air Act of 1963 was similar to the 1955 Air Pollution Control Act in that it did not place heavy restrictions on industry. Rather, it promoted the recognition of the issue of pollution and the threats it faced to the public’s health. It did place emissions standards upon sources such as power generators and manufacturing facilities, however the act neglected mobile sources such as vehicles. The act itself allocated $95 million, about $740 million today, towards research and establishing more programs to control pollution. This money was distributed over a three year period to local governments and environmental agencies. Additionally the act recognized the issue of sulfur emissions from high sulfur content coal and oil. As a result
