ABSTRACT
Introducing a pioneering, even radical, regulatory innovation on top of a long-established, tested, and traditional set of ozone control regulatory measures, which many believed should be extended instead, is not a trivial exercise in environmental governance. This chapter describes the setting for this action, including information on the local health impacts of urban ozone, the contending views on design of this innovative regulation, the subsequent compromised design, and the resulting hopes and expectations as the new regime was launched. The actual performance of the first years of this new regulation is described in Chapter 3.
