Data on 100 000 US factories is used to develop comprehensive abatement cost estimates by industry sector for seven major air pollutants. The results reveal very high intersectoral variances in marginal and average abatement costs: maximum/ minimum ratios are frequently near 10, and occasionally...

Factory-level data are used to estimate water pollution abatement costs for Chinese industry. Joint abatement cost functions are utilized which relate total costs to treatment volume and the simultaneous effect of reductions in suspended solids, chemical oxygen demand, biological oxygen demand...