Surviving the Turbulence: the Transportation--Air Quality Arena, 1999-2000.

From: Public Roads | Date: September 1, 2000| Author: Koontz, Michael | Copyright information

When Congress passed the Clean Air Act (CAA) in 1970, the ambitious optimism of many legislators probably wouldn't have allowed them to envision that the war on dirty air would stretch into the 21st century. Indeed, the major amendments of 1977 and the sweeping effects of the 1990 amendments seemed to open up whole new fronts in a battle that was neither lost nor won -- it just wouldn't go away.

It's difficult to imagine for transportation and air quality planners, but C...

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