Synopses & Reviews
The United States has made tremendous progress in reducing air pollution during the last few decades. But many people believe that Bush administration policies will increase air pollution, and that stringent new measures are needed to improve air quality. In No Way Back, Joel Schwartz shows that, as a result of fleet turnover and already-adopted regulations, most remaining air pollution will be eliminated during the next twenty years of so--even without adopting any new regulations. Schwartz argues that regulators should stop focusing on needlessly expensive policies to reduce long-term emissions, such as electric vehicles, and redirect their efforts to flexible, least-cost measures to more quickly reduce remaining near-term pollution.