Agenda

Regulating Air Pollutants from Power Plants: What is Sensible?

The Senate is considering mandating sharp cuts in emissions of four air pollutants from power plants––nitrogen oxides, sulfur dioxide, mercury and carbon dioxide. President Bush is likely to support stringent cuts in all but carbon dioxide. Is there a better way to achieve the same environmental goals? Experts will debate the economic, environmental and legal ramifications of different policy approaches.

Tuesday, February 19, 2002
9:45 a.m.––1:30 p.m.
Wohlstetter Conference Center, Twelfth Floor, AEI
1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036

 

9:30 a.m.       Registration

9:45              Welcome:  Christopher DeMuth, AEI

                         Panel I: Economic Issues 
                         Panelists:   Randall Lutter, Joint Center
                                   Anne E. Smith, Charles River Associates
                                   Peter E. Tsirigotis, EPA 
                   Moderator: Robert W. Hahn, Joint Center

10:45            Break

11:00            Panel II: Legal and Environmental Issue
                                             Panelists:    C. Boyden Gray, Wilmer, Cutler &
                                    Pickering
                                    David G. Hawkins, National Resources Defense  
                                    Council
                                    Jeffrey R. Holmstead, EPA 
                                    John Palmisano, Evolution Markets

12:15 p.m.        Luncheon Address 
                     Speaker:    Administrator Christine Todd Whitman
                                     U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

1:30               Adjournment