Section 20: Air quality and atmosphere protection.

(1) The Agency may make regulations setting specifications and standards to protect and enhance the quality of Nigeria's air resources, so as to promote the public health or welfare and the natural development and productive capacity of the nations' human, animal, marine or plant life including, in particular:
(a) minimum essential air quality standards for human, animal, marine or plant health;
(b)
the control of concentration of substances in the air which separately or in combination are likely to result in damage or deterioration of property or of human, animal, marine or plant health;
(c) the most appropriate means to prevent and combat various atmospheric pollution;
(d)
control of atmospheric pollution originating from energy sources, including that produced by aircraft and other self-propelled vehicles, industries, factories and power generating situations or facilities;
(e) standards applicable to emission from any new mobile or stationary source which in the Agency's judgment causes or contributes to air pollution which may reasonably be anticipated to endanger public health or welfare; and
(f) the use of appropriate means to reduce emission to permissible levels.
(2) The Agency may establish monitoring stations or networks to locate sources of atmospheric pollution and determine their actual or potential danger.
(3) A person who violates the regulations made pursuant to subsection (1) of this section commits an offence and shall on conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding N200,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year or to both such fine and imprisonment and an additional fine of N20,000 for every day the offence subsists.
(4) Where an offence under subsection (1) of this section is committed by a body corporate, it shall on conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding N2,000,000 and an additional fine of N50,000 for every day the offence subsists.