EPA’s Clean Air Act Operating Permit Rules

The Economics of Pollution Permit Banking in the Context of Title Iv of the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments the Economics of Pollution Permit Banking in the Context of Title Iv of the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments

Tradable pollution permits are the basis of a new market-based approach to environmental control. The Acid Rain Program, established under Title IV of the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990, and aimed at drastically reducing the SO2 emissions of electricity generating units in the US, is the world’s first large-scale implementation of such a program. An important feature of this program is that p...

Is the Clean Air Act unconstitutional?

Health issues in the Clean Air Act.

Major conclusions and recommendations of the National Commission on Air Quality on issues of health in the Clean Air Act are presented. The issues revolve mainly about the standard setting processes for ubiquitous pollutants, controlled through ambient air quality standards (Section 109), and for hazardous pollutants controlled through emission standards (Section 112). The conceptual difficulti...

Catching up on the Clean Air Act.

Four patients underwent intraoperative photodynamic therapy after surgery with meso-tetra(hydroxyphenyl)-chlorin (mTHPC-PDT) for diffuse malignant mesothelioma. Preliminary procedures were performed in two patients in order to establish the efficacy of mTHPC-PDT and to optimise its tumoricidal effect. The tumoricidal effect was related to the mTHPC dose, light dose and the time interval between...

Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990.