Federal Control of Greenhouse Gas Emissions
AIChE Annual Meeting
2010
2010 Annual Meeting
Environmental Division
Climate Change Legislation and Regulation
Wednesday, November 10, 2010 - 3:55pm to 4:35pm
With this presentation, the author will provide a summary of the history of Greenhouse Gas Regulation in the United States, including a review of international treaty origins, congressional climate change initiatives and the general Clean Air Act mechanisms available post Massachusetts v. EPA, the 2007 Supreme Court case which recognized that greenhouse gases are "air pollutants" within the scope of the Clean Air Act.