pollution disamenities across space and over time. The paper ends with a discussion of opportunities for future work on coal and …Historically coal has offered both benefits and costs to urban areas. Benefits include coal's role in fueling industry … and thus employment. The primary costs are air pollution and its impact on human health. This paper starts by using a …

We compare the spatial distribution of emissions from Southern California's pollution-trading program with that of a …

This article proposes and evaluates four hypotheses about US pollution and environmental policy over the last half … century. First, air and water pollution have declined substantially, although greenhouse gas emissions have not. Second …, environmental policy explains a large share of these trends. Third, much of the regulation of air and drinking water pollution has …

greenhouse gases throughout the industrialized world, and the Clean Development Mechanism -- an international emission …