working paper

The Smog-Reduction Road: Remote Sensing versus The Clean Air Act

Publication Date

January 31, 1996

Author(s)

Abstract

The 1990 amendments to the Clean Air Act mandated that local governments that violate federal ozone (urban smog) standards abide by a dizzying array of regulations, many of the most controversial of which–centralized state inspection and maintenance programs, carpooling requirements, zero- emission vehicle sales quotas, use of alternative fuels, and new-vehicle emission standards–are intended to control automobile emissions.