This report emphasizes one way that regulations following from the CAA directly influences individuals‟ behavior: through the Inspection and Maintenance (I&M) programs.

Both my own research and reading in the literature suggests that EPA has serious problems in the way it employs scientific information when it assesses both the potential benefits, and potential costs of existing and proposed public policies.

Joel Schwartz submitted comments to EPA on the agency’s proposal to lower the 24-hour PM2.5 standard from 65 mg/u3 to 35 mg/u3.

The EPA's Toxics Release Inventory saystoxic releases rose 5 percent in 2002as compared with the previous year, but reports of the death of environmental regulation are premature.

It's no surprise that the Sierra Club fails to discuss positive air pollution trends and the problems with its policy prescriptions, and ignores people's lifestyle preferences.

The climate campaign's trump card in the United States--the EPA's announcement of its intention to regulate greenhouse gases through the Clean Air Act--may turn out to be a joker.

Reforming the Clean Air Act’s treatment of conventional pollutants would both ease political resolution of the greenhouse gas issue and improve control of conventional pollutants.

In the latest setback for global warming activists, the federal Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled last Friday that the Clean Air Act does not require theEPA to regulate greenhouse gas emissions.