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Opportunities for EPA to Regulate Nitrous Oxide

MCLI Recommendation: “EPA should continue to use its authority under CAA §202 to regulate mobile sources of nitrous oxide emissions, and should introduce more stringent nitrous oxide emission caps for new motor vehicle fleets.”

LPDD Recommendation: “EPA should use its authority under CAA §§115 or 615 to issue nationwide regulations respecting the control of nitrous oxide emissions from agricultural soil management and livestock.”

LPDD Recommendation: “EPA should use its authority under CAA §§115, 615, or 111 to establish emission caps or performance standards for stationary sources of nitrous oxide emissions, particularly power plants and nitric acid facilities.”

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Report, Managing a Forgotten Gas Under Existing US Law: An Interdisciplinary Analysis

Kanter et al.’s 2017 report studies regulatory options to control nitrous oxide and explores the environmental and economic impacts of enacting them. It determines that the Clean Air Act is the most p...

Example Executive Branch

Clean Air Act §111

CAA §111 establishes a framework for regulating air pollution from stationary sources such as power plants and industrial facilities. EPA has not yet promulgated any new source performance standards o...

Example Executive Branch

Clean Air Act Title VI

CAA §615 provides the EPA Administrator authority to promulgate regulations controlling any substance anticipated to affect the stratosphere to the detriment of public health and welfare. This authori...

Model Law Executive Branch

LPDD Model Regulation: Controlling N2O Emissions from Large Commercial Farms

This model regulation is designed to control emissions of nitrous oxide (N2O) from large commercial crop farms to reduce impacts of N2O pollution to the stratospheric ozone layer. The regulation estab...

Example Executive Branch

Clean Air Act §202

CAA §202(a) allows EPA to prescribe standards for air pollutants from mobile sources that may cause or contribute to air pollution that endangers public health or welfare. EPA has used this authority ...

Resource Executive Branch

EPA’s Good Neighbor Rule

In March 2023, EPA finalized it’s “Good Neighbor” Rule, under which power plant owners in 22 states will face tighter nitrogen oxides emissions requirements. Power plants without NOx emissions reducti...

Example Executive Branch

Clean Air Act §115

Clean Air Act §115 allows EPA to regulate any air pollutant on which there have been studies from an duly constituted international agency; for which US emissions endanger public health or welfare in ...