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3. Improving Environmental Performance at Lower Cost Using Market-Based Mechanisms That Create Incentives for Innovation: Using the market-based mechanism of a cap-and-trade program, the Clear Skies Initiative will establish national, federally enforceable emissions limits for each pollutant.
It would establish national cap-and-trade programs for NOx, SO2 and mercury emissions from power generators (with appropriate measures to address local concerns).
In conducting the modeling requested by Senators Jeffords and Lieberman, EPA has assumed that the reductions would be achieved through a nationwide "cap-and-trade" system similar to the Acid Rain program established under the 1990 Amendments to the Clean Air Act, together with increasing penetration and performance of energy technologies.
"The data confirm a general prediction about cap-and-trade programs, that they will tend to create incentives for the dirtiest plants to clean up the most, as the per-ton cost of emissions reductions may be expected to be the least.
The Clear Skies Act of 2002 extends and reorganizes Title IV of the Clean Air Act to establish new cap-and-trade programs requiring reductions of sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, and mercury emissions from electric generating facilities.