By Shawna Ganley, Shelley Welton
This white paper summarizes our research into the permissibility of states pursuing an integrated, multi-pollutant, flexible approach to air quality planning. The paper first addresses threshold issues: state authority under the Clean Air Act to voluntarily implement integrated planning and the permissibility of using a multi-pollutant approach to air quality planning. It then examines two key issues concerning emerging control measures: how states can use energy efficiency and renewable energy (EERE) programs in their State Implementation Plans (SIPs) and to what extent states may allow novel measures to satisfy the Act’s source-specific control technology requirements.
Read the report Legal Issues in Integrated, Multi-Pollutant Planning for Energy and Air Quality in Columbia Law School's Scholarship Archive.