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* 2011, March 16 -- Proposes rules on HAPs. Electric utility reaction in June and July is highly negative.
==History==
SW: clean up clean air act
* 2005, May 18 -- EPA issues a final rule on mercury emissions, which would make it the only one of the HAPs to be regulated. This was the Clean Air Mercury Rule (CAMR) which set mercury standards for new coal-fired power plants and established a national mercury cap and trade program for electric utilities. The idea behind the CAMR was to reduce mercury emissions from coal power plants by 70 percent by 2018.
*2006 Attempt to reverse New Source Review is overturned as "contrary to the plain language" of the Clean Air Act by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.
* 2009, April 17 -- EPA rules that man-made emissions of six greenhouse gases, including carbon dioxide, are a danger to the welfare and health of the public, and should therefore be regulated as pollutants. Detailed proposals for the regulation were issued in September, 2009.
* 2011, July 11 -- EPA issues final regulations for Cross-State Air Pollution Rule (CSAPR) issued, requiring requires 27 states to reduce power plant emissions that contribute to ozone and/or fine particle pollution in other states. <ref> [http://www.epa.gov/airtransport/ Cross State Air Pollution Rule”] EPA, July 11, 2011. </ref>
The first Clean Air Act was passed in 1963. It was amended first by the Clean Air Act Amendment in 1966, then by the Clean Air Act Extension of 1970 (84 Stat. 1676, Public Law 91-604). The 1970 extension is sometimes called the "Muskie Act" because of the central role Maine Senator Edmund Muskie played in drafting the content of the bill. The Clean Air Act Amendments in 1977 further modified the law.<ref name="nsr"/>
