Lowest Achievable Control Technology (LAER) is a pollution control standard created by the Environmental Protection Agency and is used to determine what air pollution control technology will be used to control a specific pollutant to a specified limit. At the discretion of the overseeing regulatory agency, the Local, State, or Federal EPA, LAER may apply to any source, either existing or new, and is used to limit a source to the lowest achievable emissions possible based on commercially available technology, and in some instances on non-commercial experimental or demonstration technologies.
The LAER standard is the most stringent standard set forth by the EPA and applied only in extreme circumstances.
Famous quotes containing the words lowest, control and/or technology:
“We are put there beside the three thieves
for the lowest of us all
deserve to smile in eternity
like a watermelon.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“Why wont they let a year die without bringing in a new one on the instant, cant they use birth control on time? I want an interregnum. The stupid years patter on with unrelenting feet, never stopping—rising to little monotonous peaks in our imaginations at festivals like New Year’s and Easter and Christmas—But, goodness, why need they do it?”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)
“If the technology cannot shoulder the entire burden of strategic change, it nevertheless can set into motion a series of dynamics that present an important challenge to imperative control and the industrial division of labor. The more blurred the distinction between what workers know and what managers know, the more fragile and pointless any traditional relationships of domination and subordination between them will become.”
—Shoshana Zuboff (b. 1951)