The lawyers who successfully won the law’s climate authority once thought of it as a placeholder for stronger legislation. Three presidents have used the Clean Air Act to curb planet-warming pollution ...
Party held out prospect of act while in opposition but plan did not make it into election manifesto ...
Industry actors, Congress, and the EPA are teaming up to potentially make our air less breathable. Such was life in the United States before Congress passed the Clean Air Act (CAA) in 1970. Fifty-five ...
Thomas Jorling, adviser to Republicans who cosponsored the 1970 law, disputes the Trump administration’s claim that it shouldn’t apply to planet-warming greenhouse gases. Thomas Jorling with his dog, ...
The Clean Air Act’s outdated framework is hindering progress. New bills aim to modernize it with reforms aligned to today’s economic, environmental, and scientific realities. The Clean Air Act (CAA) ...
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