Encouraging Energy Efficiency through the Clean Air Act

New CCCL White Paper: Encouraging Energy Efficiency through the Clean Air Act / Moneen Nasmith. Climate Law Blog, 5/04/2013

http://blogs.law.columbia.edu/climatechange/2013/04/05/new-cccl-white-paper-encouraging-energy-efficiency-through-the-clean-air-act/

Energy efficiency measures provide tremendous opportunities for achieving effective and cost-friendly reductions in the emissions of greenhouse gases. In the absence of more comprehensive legislative efforts, proponents of energy efficiency projects can look to existing environmental laws for tools to promote and encourage energy efficiency and conservation. One such law is the federal Clean Air Act (“CAA”), which empowers the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) to use a variety of mechanisms to address air pollution and protect the public health. A new white paper by CCCL examines the myriad ways that the CAA can be used to promote energy efficiency…