Strengthening Energy Policy in the Northeast Region

Workshop participants were asked to consider, based on the region’s experience with the Clean Air Act and its own state- and regional-level policy, how a successful climate policy might look. Participants generally agreed with the conclusions reached by the project team in their analysis of the Clean Air Act, particularly that durability and adaptability are essential to a program’s success but are a challenge to achieve given the inherent uncertainty involved in predicting the effects of climate change.