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Ethanol-Blended Gasoline Policy and Ozone Pollution in São Paulo
Salvo, Alberto - 2018
government over the period 2010 to 2013, to test the joint hypotheses that (1) atmospheric ozone production in the São Paulo … use in the gasoline-ethanol vehicle fleet leads to higher ozone concentrations in urban São Paulo's ambient air. We adopt … a regression discontinuity design (RDD) and flexibly test each discontinuity separately. Our finding that ozone levels …
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Regulating Greenhouse Gases from the Top Down : Using the Montreal Protocol and Clean Air Act’s Stratospheric Protection to Address Climate Change
Rohwer, Michael - 2011
it a model for other agreements, but its power goes beyond protecting the stratospheric ozone layer. Much of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014178273
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Science and Policy in Setting National Ambient Air Quality Standards : Resolving the Ozone Enigma
McGarity, Thomas Owen - 2015
revision and attempted re-revision of the primary NAAQS for photochemical oxidants (ozone), in which two EPA Administrators … perspective on the roles of science and policy in environmental decision making. Drawing on the ozone "rulemakings" as a case … the NAAQS standard-setting process in Part II, Parts III and IV describe the EPA's 2008 revision to the ozone NAAQS and …
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Incidental adaptation : the role of non-climate regulations
Bento, Antonio; Miller, Noah; Mookerjee, Mehreen; … - In: Environmental and resource economics 86 (2023) 3, pp. 305-343
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Policy evolution under the clean air act
Schmalensee, Richard; Stavins, Robert N. - 2018
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Essays on the economics of the 1956 Clean Air Act
Fukushima, Nanna - 2021
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Tradable Standards for Clean Air Act Carbon Policy
Burtraw, Dallas; Fraas, Arthur G.; Richardson, Nathan D. - 2012
EPA is in the process of regulating U.S. greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions using its powers under the Clean Air Act. The likely next phase of this regulatory program is performance standards under Section 111 of the act for coal plants and petroleum refineries, which the agency has committed to...
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Environmental Regulation and Worker Benefits : Evidence from City-Level Air Quality Standards in China
Zhang, Guanglai; Zhang, Ning - 2020
This study identifies the effect of environmental regulation on worker earnings using China’s “City Air Pollution Prevention and Control Program” (CAPPCP), which is a new city-level air quality, as a quasi-experiment. CAPPCP provides variations in regulatory intensity across years and...
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Would central government's direct supervisions enhance local environmental qualities? : evidence from China
Hu, Zhilin - In: International studies of economics 17 (2022) 2, pp. 261-275
With the construction of ecological civilization, central government's direct inspections have become the new norm of environmental protection supervision. Since 2016, the central government has been dispatching supervision teams, one batch after another, to conduct environmental protection...
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Air pollution and worker productivity : higher levels of air pollution reduce worker productivity, even when air quality is generally low
Neidell, Matthew - 2017
Environmental regulations are typically considered to be a drag on the economy. However, improved environmental quality may actually enhance productivity by creating a healthier workforce. Evidence suggests that improvements in air quality lead to improvements in worker productivity across a...
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