This article was cited from Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/22/AR2010022204829.html
First of all, this article shows the political dynamics among president, EPA, congress, Courts and interest groups. As the policy implement of EPA, companies to own power plants for producing automobile should abide by the Obama's regulation under te Clean Air Act as well as seek tradable pollution permits because the Suprem Court judeged greenhouse gases from motor vehicles as a pollutant. Finally, the conflict between EPA and interest groups is expected. In order to effectively handle the expected cnflict, the EPA may utilize adaptive management.
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ReplyDeleteI read the article which you linked here. Thanks for introducing the article. This article gives me some interesting points to forecast this regulation. First, it is interesting to see if Congress will put a brake on Obama administration's plan to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. Second, according to the article, small emitters are excluded in the targeting facilities to apply the regulation. This time, Obama administration is likely to act passively toward the environmental policy, unlikely his strong willingness showed from the beginning of his campaign. The last interesting point is how the court would judge this case if the timetable is not based on an authority as Hlmstead said.
Hi~, your expectation that the Obama’s driving force for environmental policy will weaken, is very interesting. By the way, for me, honestly, I can’t assert something about his attitude change about the policy just through the situation. First of all, if examining the policy situation, we can expect political conflict between companies operating automobile plant, congress, and government about the pollution policy. Besides, courts to judge the emissions pollution. In this point, what is the goal of the policy, or Clean Air Act? It is to decrease the quantity of pollution? If so, How many? And, How can we measure it?, and Environmental policy is not about just pollution problem. Even though all plants to include the small emitters are applied to the Clean Air Act, it can mean the achievement of the policy goal?, And environmental policy seems to bring much positive or negative externalities. So, the overall and strict evaluation of the environmental policy may very difficult and require high advanced skills.
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