Legal Opinion
Texas Municipal Power Agency v. Environmental Protection Agency
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided July 23, 1996No. 93-1325, 93-1334 to 93-1336 and 93-1349PublishedCited by 61 opinions
1Per curiam
I. Introduction
With its 1990 amendments to the Clean Air Act (the “Act”), Congress established a program for addressing acid rain, for the first time seeking to cut air pollution by means of marketable permits. See 42 U.S.C. §§ 7651-7651o; see generally Indianapolis Power & Light Co. v. U.S. EPA, 58 F.3d 643 (D.C.Cir.1995). The basic idea of such a regulatory device is that if polluters for which cutbacks are relatively costly can buy pollution entitlements from ones for which cutbacks are relatively cheap, the nation can achieve a much greater overall cutback for a given expenditure of…
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