The Clean Air Act And The Basis For Regulation Of Greenhouse Gases

摘要

The Clean Air Act (CAA) provides broad authority for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to impose regulations designed to reduce emissions of air pollutants which endanger human health and the environment. For decades, EPA focused on and addressed a known set of air pollutants, called criteria pollutants and hazardous air pollutants, emitted from an established set of sources.