The Clean Power Act targets electric power plants and addresses the harmful results of emissions such as: carbon dioxide, nitrogen oxide, sulfur dioxide, and mercury. In turn the Clean Power Act will help to limit the dangerous effects of global climate change, ground-level ozone, acid rain, and bioaccumulation. The proposed legislative solution reduces emissions by implementing an emissions allowance system which provides flexibility and benefits for the reduction of emissions. Students analyzed the act by further exploring the nature of the public policy problem.