A coal-burning power station can be seen located next to a lake on the outskirts of Beijing (REUTERS/David Gray).
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A Realistic Timetable for Greenhouse Gas Regulation Under the Clean Air Act
September 26, 2013, Philip A. Wallach
Philip Wallach writes that the regulations likely to be produced under the Clean Air Act will be inefficient; the act, written for very different purposes, provides a singularly unsteady basis for climate change policy. Even putting aside those concerns, and assuming that EPA in Obama’s second term (and beyond) fully commits itself to regulating greenhouse gas emissions from power plants, there is likely to be a huge delay before any policy could be meaningfully implemented.