Document Type
Report
Publication Date
2011
Abstract
In the absence of congressional action on climate change, all eyes are on the states and the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to see how they will regulate greenhouse gas emissions from existing large power plants and industrial facilities. Indeed, power plants and industrial facilities are the sources of half of all U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, making those plants and facilities central to any effort to reduce the country’s total emissions. This working paper explores a promising pathway for the states and EPA to make these reductions using the standards of performance under section 111 of the Clean Air Act.
Disciplines
Environmental Law | Law
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.
Center/Program
Sabin Center for Climate Change Law
Recommended Citation
Franz T. Litz, Nicholas Bianco, Michael B. Gerrard & Gregory E. Wannier,
What’s Ahead for Power Plants and Industry? Using the Clean Air Act to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Building on Existing Regional Programs,
Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, Columbia Law School & World Resources Institute, February 2011
(2011).
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https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/faculty_scholarship/3103
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