The 1990 Clean Air Act: a tougher regulatory challenge facing Midwest industry

Protecting the environment and human health is very important. Toward these goals, several new programs have been initiated under the 1990 Amendments to the Clean Air Act (CAA). This article provides an overview of these pro-grams and their potentially extensive impacts and discusses the attendant challenges facing management and workers in U.S. industry. According to preliminary U.S. Environ-mental Protection Agency (EPA) estimates, the annual cost of these regulatory programs will be around $20 billion [U.S. EPA (1990a)], but other estimates are considerably higher [Fu