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title: 'Steve Jobs and the Clean Air Act'
slug: 'steve-jobs-and-the-clean-air-act-2'
date: 2026-05-12
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tags: ['clean-air-act', 'regulatory-reform', 'simplicity', 'policy']
abstract: '[](/images/sip/steve-jobs-and-the-clean-air-act.png)I wonder what Steve Jobs would think about the Clean Air Act?'
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author: 'Jed Anderson'
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original_source: 'https://sipreform.wordpress.com/2013/08/19/steve-jobs-and-the-clean-air-act-2/'
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[![Steve Jobs and the Clean Air Act](/images/sip/steve-jobs-and-the-clean-air-act.png)](/images/sip/steve-jobs-and-the-clean-air-act.png)I wonder what Steve Jobs would think about the Clean Air Act?

> ***►*“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”*—Steve Jobs***
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> ***►* *“*When you first start off trying to solve a problem, the first solutions you come up with are very complex, and most people stop there. But if you keep going, and live with the problem and peel more layers of the onion off, you can often times arrive at some very elegant and simple solutions.”*—Steve Jobs***
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> ***►* *“*That’s been one of my mantras – focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains. *—Steve Jobs***

Time to transform the SIP process.  We can make it happen.

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Comments on the Clean Air Act

- “I hate that each sector has 17 to 20 rules that govern each piece of equipment and you’ve got to be a neuroscientist to figure it out”. –Gina McCarthy, U.S. EPA Administrator
- “The Clean Air Act is a lengthy and complex federal law” –Florida Department of Environmental Protection
- “The federal Clean Air Act (CAA) alone has been referred to as the most complicated statute in history. The statutory complexity is compounded by the thousands of pages of federal regulations and the overlapping statutes and regulations adopted by each individual state.” –Erich Brich writing for the American Bar Association
- “The Clean Air Act – one of the most complex and extensive pieces of federal environmental legislation.” –Center on Congress—Indiana University
- “The Clean Air Act is complicated and contentious”. —Senate Environment and Public Works Committee
- “The Clean Air Act (CAA) is a comprehensive and complex piece of environmental legislation”. – NASDA
- “The statute and its regulatory offshoots are very complicated.”  —U.S. Department of Justice