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Glaister, Stephen; Graham, Daniel J. - 2006

The only significant road pricing scheme in the UK is that introduced by Ken Livingstone in London. But the technology now exists to develop a nationwide scheme of road user charging, with prices to road users varying with the level of congestion in a given area at a given time. The only...

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Regulation of Radioactive Fracking Wastes

Geltman, Elizabeth; LeClair, Nichole - 2018

Natural gas extracted form shale reached record production totals in 2015 in the United States and the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) forecasts natural gas production will continue to increase. Wastes from shale gas extraction can contain the radioactive isotopes radium-226 (Ra-226)...

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Social Public Purchasing : Addressing a Critical Void in Public Purchasing Research

Hafsa, Fatima; Darnall, Nicole; Bretschneider, Stuart - 2022

Since governments are the largest buyers globally, they have enormous purchasing power. Government purchasing, therefore, has potential to be leveraged to improve social outcomes, such as helping disadvantaged communities, ensuring labor rights, and minimizing negative environmental impacts....

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Are Emission Performance Standards Effective in Pollution Control? Evidence from the EU's Large Combustion Plant Directive

Singhal, Puja - 2019

This paper explores the extent to which emissions limits on stack concentrations under the Large Combustion Plant (LCP) Directive succeeded in mitigating local air pollutants from thermal power stations in the European Union. We take advantage of the discontinuities in regulation status to show...

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Systems of packaging waste recycling in the EU : comparing five different case-studies

Cruz, Nuno F.; Simões, Pedro; Marques, Rui Cunha - 2012

All European Union (EU) member states have to comply with the demanding recycling rates targets that were set for the recovery of packaging waste in the Directive 94/62/EC. Nevertheless, each country has its own system for accomplishing these targets. Some already had national legislation when...

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Healthy climate, healthy bodies : optimal fuel taxation and physical activity

Bijgaart, Inge van den; Klenert, David; Mattauch, Linus; … - 2020

Transport has significant externalities including carbon emissions and air pollution. Public health research has identified additional social gains from active travel, due to health benefits of physical exercise. Per mile, these benefits greatly exceed the external costs from car use. We...

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Are emission performance standards effective in pollution control? : evidence from the EU's large combustion plant directive

Singhal, Puja - 2019 - Revised on May 29, 2019

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Are emission performance standards effective in pollution control? : evidence from the EU's large combustion plant directive

Singhal, Puja - 2018

This paper explores the extent to which the Large Combustion Plant (LCP) Directive succeeded in mitigating local air pollutants from thermal electricity generating plants in the European Union. Using yearly data on plant-level operations from the EEA, we investigate whether emissions limits on...

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Healthy Climate, Healthy Bodies : Optimal Fuel Taxation and Physical Activity

Bijgaart, Inge van den; Klenert, David; Mattauch, Linus; … - 2021

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Economists, Environmental Policies and Federalism

Scott, Anthony - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS)

. Scott first reviews the history of environmental policy in England, the United States and Canada. He then examines the …. The paper then compares what economists do in Canada in the environmental area compared to that in the United States …, finding that academic environmental economists in Canada specialize more in theory and show little knowledge or interest in …

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