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Ethanol and Clean Air: The "Reg-Neg" Controversy and Subsequent Events

The Clean Air Act Amendments (CAAA), enacted in 1990, called for cleaner automotive fuels in order to upgrade air quality. This appeared to provide new market potential for ethanol, which is obtained from corn grown in the midwestern United States, and which is already in large-scale use in a blend of ten percent ethanol to ninety percent gasoline. The CAAA left specific details of the clean fuels program to be worked out by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), in consultation with the in… more

Date: June 22, 1993

Creator: Segal, Migdon

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Air Quality: Impacts of Trip Reduction Programs on States and Affected Employers

This report discusses employer trip reduction (ETR) programs, which would require large employers to implement certain transportation control measures as part of a national effort to combat air pollution, largely as a direct result of the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990.

Date: August 18, 1993

Creator: Flechtner, Maura K. & Mayer, Susan L.