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

The Environmental Protection Agency’s reasons for not using its usual approach to regulating greenhouse gases unwittingly shows that it is obsolete for controlling conventional pollutants. Congress should update the Clean Air Act.

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.

This week marked the 40th anniversary of its passage with scarcely any observance of the magnitude of progress under the legislation.

The Environmental Protection Agency will celebrate the fortieth anniversary of the Clean Air Act, but the Clean Air Act cannot handle today's pollution problems and time to really celebrate will come when the Clean Air Act is itself reformed to make it capable of dealing with today's challenges.

Panelists will discuss the potential benefits and liabilities of the Clean Air Act.

The controversy over the Clean Air Act is worth understanding because it reveals a pivotal development that EPA and the environmental groups would prefer to conceal: the 40-year-old act is no longer a sensible way to regulate large-volume conventional air pollutants such as ozone and particulate matter.