Interactions between greenhouse gas policies and acid rain control strategies
- Twenty-First Strategies, LLC, McLean, VA (United States)
- Dept. of Energy, Washington, DC (United States)
Conventional wisdom and much of the public policy debate have usually drawn a clean delineation between acid rain issues and global warming concerns. This traditional approach of evaluating one policy at a time is too simplistic to serve as a framework for electric utilities making major capital investment and fuel procurement decisions to comply with various environmental requirements. Potential Climate change regulation can affect acid rain compliance decisions, and acid rain compliance decisions will affect future GHG emissions. This paper explores two categories of linkages between these different environmental issues. First, the assumptions one makes regarding future climate change policies can have a profound impact on the economic attractiveness of various acid rain compliance strategies. Second, decisions regarding acid rain compliance strategy can have greenhouse gas implications that might prove more or less difficult to address in future climate change legislation.
- OSTI ID:
- 617839
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-970145--
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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