The Clean Air Act Is Obsolete The Need for Bold Reform David Schoenbrod New York Law School American Enterprise Institute University of Houston Houston,

Slides:



Advertisements
Similar presentations
Clean Air Act By: Sophie Netter. Clean Air Act Drafted in 1970 Amended in 1977 and 1990 in order to set new dates for the goals because many areas had.
Advertisements

2006 AP Government Free Response Question #3 Mark Power.
EPA’s Clean Power Plan Proposed Rules for Reducing GHG Emissions from Power Plants Presentation to ACPAC June 16,
Southern Environmental Law Center Georgia Air Summit May 4, 2006.
Transportation Air Pollution. Air Pollution – Sources.
Copyright © 2011 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. McGraw-Hill/Irwin CHAPTER 11 Managing Environmental Issues.
Air pollution By: Rory C. and Kurt M.. Air pollutants  Greenhouse effect  Smog  Acid rain  Holes in the Ozone layer.
Solutions: Preventing and Reducing Air Pollution
BEFORE CLASS STARTS! One/two people from each table needs to get out a netbook and start it booting up! (1 computer/2 students) Open up an internet browser.
1 CE Air Pollution Control Regulations and Philosophies Jeff Kuo, Ph.D., P.E.
1.
EPA’s Clean Power Plan David B. Spence University of Texas at Austin Structure of proposed rule Compliance options for states Legal issues/vulnerabilities.
Update on Multi-pollutant Legislation Richard Long, Region 8 Wrap Meeting Nov. 14, 2001.
Beyond Ozone: Integrating Clean Air & Clean Energy in the 21 st Century Bill Holman Director of State Policy Duke University’s Nicholas Institute for Environmental.
Chapter 25 Environmental Protection and Global Warming.
MERCURY POLICIES: A VIEW FROM THE ELECTRIC POWER SECTOR Michael T. Rossler Indiana Energy Conference September 16, 2004.
Kristin James Markie Daigle.  C.A.A. stands for clean air act, and it is the federal law that every American will have safe air to breathe. The original.
Environmental services. Acid Rain deposition of acidic components in rain, snow fog or dew deposition of acidic components in rain, snow fog or dew.
Air Pollution Solutions Ch. 18. How should we deal with air pollution? Legal, economic, and technical tools can help us to clean up air pollution, but.
AP Government Unit 4 – Healthcare & Environmental policy.
Chapter 21 Environmental Policy. Copyright © 2011 Cengage WHO GOVERNS? WHO GOVERNS? 1.Why have environmental issues become so important in American politics.
Environmental Policy. Environmental Policy Overall Very hectic and varied opinions Activist scientists vs skeptic scientists Clean Air Act passed in 1963.
Managing Environmental Issues
Environmental Policy. The Current Status of Environmental Policy -Strong public support and executive support -The main obstacle is economic -Costs of.
Air Pollution Created By: Chance Snyder. Issues Some of the issues are that there are way to many factories polluting the air with the excess gasses they.
3.00 Understand employment, agency, environmental, energy, and intellectual property law environmental and energy law.
JORDAN DIAZ P.S. 28 THE WRIGHT BROTHERS SCHOOL 475 WEST 155 TH ST NEW YORK, NY Air Pollution.
Clean Air Act By: Emily Garcia. Background From 1948 to 1952, the country became aware of an overwhelming amount of smog and air pollution throughout.
Clean Air Initiatives in the 109th Congress: Clear Skies, or Not-So-Clear Skies Clean Air Initiatives in the 109th Congress: Clear Skies, or Not-So-Clear.
The Clean Air Act. Overview of the Clean Air Act tool kit: multiple strategies cathedral: not put together at one time.
Chapter 39 Environmental Law. 2  Under what common law theories may polluters be held liable?  What is an environmental impact statement? What is the.
Finding A Better Way to Cleaner Air in Texas Departing from the SIP Process.
Carrie Paige – EPA Region 6, Dallas David Cole – EPA OAQPS, RTP, NC Introduction to Air Permits Introduction to Air Permits.
Sometimes externality problems can’t be solved by private bargaining (transaction costs are too big). Public policy toward externalities. “Command-and-control”
HEALTH CH 10. Lesson 1 Your Environment: Pollution is when land water or air contains harmful substances making them unhealthy to the environment and.
Clean air act Drafted in 1963 Amended in 1963, 1965, 1970, 1977, 1990 It is national.
University of Texas at AustinMichigan Technological University 1 Chapter 3: Environmental Laws and Regulations David Shonnard and David Allen Department.
Welcome! Please read the board carefully and get out paper for notes. Please read the board carefully and get out paper for notes.
THE CLEAN AIR ACT (CAA) By: Cody Able. THE CLEAN AIR ACT (CAA)  Draft year: 1968  Amendment years: 1965, 1970, 1977, 1990  This is an Act in The United.
Rules and Exceptions - The Costs of “Cheap” Coal.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)  Founded by U.S. government (under Richard Nixon) in 1970  William Ruckleshaus was first EPA administrator  a.
Clean Air Act The law that defines EPA's responsibilities for protecting and improving the nation's air quality and the stratospheric ozone layer. Draft.
Is Carbon Dioxide a Pollutant?. Obama Administration: Lackluster Environmental Record 2009 Copenhagen Summit (Nations will “take note” of the problem)
Chapter 19 Environmental Law Copyright © 2015 McGraw-Hill Education. All rights reserved. No reproduction or distribution without the prior written consent.
Environmental Policy: Cap and Trade. Introduction  Environmental policy in US is adversarial  Federal standards, state and local governments can require.
Health care High costs – why? High tech procedures Lack of incentive to control costs because no one entity pays medical bills (versus countries with national.
14.4 The Air We Breathe. Name some sources of air pollution.
EPA Proposed Ground-level Ozone (O 3 ) NAAQS Rich McAllister National Tribal Air Association Policy Advisory Committee Hobbs Straus Dean & Walker.
WHO: Countries with the worst air pollution. 1.Pakistan.
The Safe Drinking Water Act (1974, 1984, & 1996) By: Cat Pittard, APES.
Air pollution part 4 Reducing air pollution. Montreal Protocol 1987: Goal was to reduce CFC emissions by 35% between 1989 and : Copenhagen Protocol.
Health care High costs – why? High tech procedures
Acid Rain.
Environmental Protection Agency
Reducing Air Pollution
Clean Air Act Glossary.
Dan Campanella Nick Lombardy
The Clean Air Act A national response to air pollution
Health care High costs – why? High tech procedures
The Suffrage Movement Main Idea: Many Progressives joined the Suffrage Movement to gain women the right to vote in national elections. Suffrage: the right.
Environmental Protection AGENCY: EPA
Human activities affect the atmosphere.
The Clean Air Act By Jessi Walker Per 2.
Neo Chen P6 Clean Air Act 1963 ⇒ 1970 ⇒ 1990.
Major New Source Review (NSR) Part 2
Travis Felthaus APES -4 Bodas
Clean Air Act of 1963 By: Brian Bae Period 4.
by: Christine Dao Per. 2 11/18/10
Energy Policy Public Policy.
Matthew LaBille, Destiny Johnson, Jackie Teachout, Trent Turpin
Presentation transcript:

The Clean Air Act Is Obsolete The Need for Bold Reform David Schoenbrod New York Law School American Enterprise Institute University of Houston Houston, Texas February 10,

The Old Way Congress tells an agency to set emissions limit or Congress sets the emission limits 2

The Old Way Congress tells an agency to set emissions limit or CAPTURE Congress sets the emission limits COMPROMISE 3

The Old Way Congress tells an agency to set emissions limit or CAPTURE Congress sets the emission limits COMPROMISE The New Way Congress tells an agency to protect health completely by a deadline 4

The Old Way Congress tells an agency to set emissions limit or CAPTURE Congress sets the emission limits COMPROMISE The New Way Congress tells an agency to protect health completely by a deadline –PERFECTION 5

The 1970 Act The Old Way Congress tells an agency to set emissions limit Congress sets the emission limits The New Way Congress tells an agency to protect health by a deadline –put all harmful widespread pollutants on a list –for listed pollutants, set air quality standards sufficient to “protect health” = NAAQS –achieve the air quality standards nationwide through state plans = SIPs 6

Senator Muskie 1970 “all Americans in all parts of the country shall have clean air to breathe within the 1970's.” The Clean Air Act “faces the air pollution crisis with urgency and in candor. It makes hard choices....” 7

The 1970 Act The Old Way Congress tells an agency to set emissions limit New factories Gasoline Congress sets the emission limits New cars New cars to use unleaded gasoline The New Way Congress tells an agency to protect health by a deadline –put all harmful widespread pollutants on a list –for listed pollutants, set air quality standards sufficient to “protect health” = NAAQS –achieve the air quality standards nationwide through state plans = SIPs 8

Why the CAA fails us 1.Promise to protect health phony 2.Unnecessarily expensive and bureaucratic 9

10

The Old Way Congress tells an agency to set emissions limit or CAPTURE Congress sets the emission limits COMPROMISE The New Way Congress tells an agency to protect health by a deadline 11

The Old Way Congress tells an agency to set emissions limit or CAPTURE Congress sets the emission limits COMPROMISE The New Way Congress tells an agency to protect health by a deadline 12

13

14

15 6,960 deaths 20,100 children with IQs below 70 And more

16 6,960 deaths 20,100 children with IQs below 70 And more ? Deaths ? children having their IQ = s reduced below 70 ? And more

Senator Muskie 1970 “all Americans in all parts of the country shall have clean air to breathe within the 1970's.” 17

The Old Way Congress tells an agency to set emissions limit or Congress sets the emission limits The New Way Congress tells an agency to protect health by a deadline –Lead –Other air quality standards –Especially hazardous pollutants 18

The Old Way Congress tells an agency to set emissions limit or Congress sets the emission limits New cars New cars to use unleaded gasoline Chemicals that destroy the ozone layer Tech based standard for especially hazardous pollutants Acid Rain The New Way Congress tells an agency to protect health by a deadline –Lead –Other air quality standards –Especially hazardous pollutants 19

Senator Muskie 1970 The Clean Air Act “faces the air pollution crisis with urgency and in candor. It makes hard choices....” 20

21

22 The Overwhelming Case for Clean Air Act Reform 43 Environmental Law Reporter (2013) by Bill Pedersen and David Schoenbrod

False Assumption 1: All Air Pollutants Have Safe Levels 23

False Assumption 1: All Air Pollutants Have Safe Levels Muskie in 1977: “Our public health scientists and doctors have told us [in 1970] that there is no threshold, that any air pollution is harmful. The Clean Air Act is based on the assumption, although we knew at the time it was inaccurate, that there is a threshold.” 24

False Assumption 2 Air Pollution Is a Local Problem. 25

26 “[The SIP process consumes] extensive amounts of local, state, and federal agency time and resources in a legalistic and often frustrating proposal and review process, which … draws attention and resources away from the more germane issues of ensuring progress towards the goal of [protecting health]” Committee on Air Quality Management in the United States, National Research Council, “Air Quality Management in the United States” (Washington, D.C.: National Academic Press, 2004), at 28

The Old Way Congress tells an agency to set emissions limit or Congress sets the emission limits New cars New cars to use unleaded gasoline Chemicals that destroy the ozone layer Tech based standard for especially hazardous pollutants Acid Rain The New Way Congress tells an agency to protect health by a deadline –Lead –Other air quality standards –Especially hazardous pollutants 27

Presidential candidate Obama in 2008 on cap-and-trade "a cap-and-trade system is a smarter way of controlling pollution" than traditional “top- down” regulation in which regulators dictate “every single rule that a company has to abide by, which creates a lot of bureaucracy and red tape and often-times is less efficient.” 28

MORE BANG FOR THE BUCK 29

Why the CAA fails us 1.Promise to protect health phony 2.Unnecessarily expensive and bureaucratic 30

31

MORE BANG FOR THE BUCK National cap and trade program controlling 3000 largest sources 32

MORE BANG FOR THE BUCK National cap and trade program controlling 3000 largest sources Abolish –Federal oversight of SIPS as we know it 33

MORE BANG FOR THE BUCK National cap and trade program controlling 3000 largest sources Abolish –Federal oversight of SIPS as we know it –PSD –Visibility –Clean Air Mercury Rule –BACT and LAER –NSPS 34

The Savings from Bold Reform The costs to the government of producing the paperwork –statute: 450 pages* –The EPA regulations: 23,000 pages* –EPA guidance: about 50 times longer than the regulations –In each state: statutes, regulations, guidance *ordinary book pages 35

The Savings from Bold Reform The costs to the government of producing the paperwork The costs to firms of meeting their paperwork obligations 36

The Savings from Bold Reform The costs to the government of producing the paperwork The costs to firms of dealing with the paperwork The impact on firms of –Multiple pollutants –Each subject to multiple programs, –Each program subject to change 37

RESPONSE TO THE BREAKING THE LOGJAM PROPOSALS Environmental groups: if it makes the air cleaner 39

RESPONSE TO THE BREAKING THE LOGJAM PROPOSALS Environmental groups: if it makes the air cleaner Big corporations: if it costs less. 40

41

RESPONSE TO THE BREAKING THE LOGJAM PROPOSALS Environmental groups: if it makes the air cleaner Big corporations: if it costs less. PLENTY OF ROOM FOR A DEAL 42