| Resurrecting Clear Skies
Gayer, Ted
Environmental Policy Outlook, March-April 2004, 5p.
“After failing to make it out of Senate committee in March, the future of the president’s Clear Skies bill is uncertain. While the bill contains some flaws, most of its opponents criticized the virtues of Clear Skies, thus making it more difficult to fix the real problems and to strike a compromise. There is still some hope that the bill will pass later this congressional session. In lieu of Clear Skies, the Environmental Protection Agency recently promulgated two administrative rules to tighten regulations on power plant air pollution. These rules are certain to be litigated and thus delayed. With Clear Skies, we get a greater guarantee that the air quality goals will be met, and we get greater regulatory certainty that leads to lower costs.” Ted Gayer is a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI).
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