The Clean Air Act
Description
The Clean Air Act amendments alter the complex laws affecting atmospheric pollution and at the same time have broad implications for energy. Specifically, the Clean Air Act amendments for the first time deal with the environmental problem of acid deposition in a way that minimizes energy and economic impacts. By relying upon a market-based system of emission trading, a least cost solution will be used to reduce sulfur dioxide (SO2) emissions by almost 40 percent. The emission trading system is the centerpiece of the Clean Air Act (CAA) amendments effort to resolve energy and environmental interactions in a manner that will maximize environmental solutions while minimizing energy impacts. This paper will explore how the present CAA amendments deal with the emission trading system and the likely impact of the emission trading system and the CAA amendments upon the electric power industry
Additional details
Additional titles
- Subtitle (English)
- Energy and environmental interactions
Publishing Information
- Publisher
- International Assoc. of Energy Economists.
- Imprint Place
- Washington, DC (United States)
- Imprint Title
- Energy supply/demand balances
- Imprint Pagination
- 448 p.
- Journal Page Range
- p. 6-17.
Conference
- Title
- 12. annual North American conference of the International Association for Energy Economics (IAEE).
- Dates
- 1-3 Oct 1990.
- Place
- Ottawa (Canada).
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 23042919
- Subject category
- S54: ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; S20: FOSSIL-FUELED POWER PLANTS; S54: ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- AIR POLLUTION CONTROL; AMENDMENTS; ECONOMIC IMPACT; ELECTRIC POWER INDUSTRY; ENERGY CONSUMPTION; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS; FLUE GAS; POLLUTION REGULATIONS; RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT; SULFUR DIOXIDE; US CLEAN AIR ACT
- Descriptors DEC
- CHALCOGENIDES; CONTROL; GASEOUS WASTES; INDUSTRY; LAWS; OXIDES; OXYGEN COMPOUNDS; POLLUTION CONTROL; POLLUTION LAWS; REGULATIONS; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; SULFUR OXIDES; WASTES
Optional Information
- Secondary number(s)
- CONF-901097--.