Clean Air Act §115
It has been postulated that this section could serve as a justification for regulating any greenhouse gas recognized under the Paris Climate Accord.
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Clean Air Act §202
EPA has used this authority to set per-vehicle nitrous oxide and methane standards for light duty passenger vehicles as well as heavy-duty vehicles.
Clean Air Act §111
LPDD recommends that EPA consider promulgating nitrous oxide emission standards for fossil-fuel fired steam generators, natural gas units, and CAFOs.
Clean Air Act Title VI
CAA §615 provides the EPA Administrator authority to promulgate regulations controlling any substance anticipated to affect the stratosphere to the detriment of public health and welfare.
Report, Managing a Forgotten Gas Under Existing US Law: An Interdisciplinary Analysis
Studies regulatory options to control nitrous oxide and explores the environmental and economic impacts of enacting them.
Alberta’s Cap and Trade Program
Allows offset credits for reductions of nitrous oxide and other GHGs from agricultural sources, and has developed an offset protocol for estimating nitrous oxide reduction.
EU Emissions Trading Scheme
The EU’s Emissions Trading Scheme imposes nitrous oxide limits on the production of nitric, adipic, glyoxal, and glyoxylic acids.
California Emissions Trading Scheme
Covers nitrous oxide emissions from power plants, nitric acid facilities, and transportation fuels.
New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme Agricultural Reporting Requirement
Requires agricultural sources to report emissions, although it has not yet established any cap on emissions from these sources.
EPRI Report, Creating Greenhouse Gas Emissions Offsets by Reducing Nitrous Oxide Emissions in Agricultural Crop Production
A scientifically robust, straightforward, readily implementable, and widely adoptable N2O emissions reduction offsets methodology that can be used by farmers to create GHG emissions offsets under multiple existing offsets standards.