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Regulating Untaxable Externalities : Are Vehicle Air Pollution Standards Effective and Efficient?

Jacobsen, Mark R.; Sallee, James M.; Shapiro, Joseph S.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

assess the effectiveness and efficiency of these standards, which are the centerpiece of US Clean Air Act regulation of …

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The Effects of Environmental Regulation on the Competitiveness of U.S. Manufacturing

Greenstone, Michael; List, John A.; Syverson, Chad - 2012

factor productivity (TFP) levels. We find that among surviving polluting plants, stricter air quality regulations are … productivity, though effects are also evident among particulates and sulfur dioxide emitters. Carbon monoxide regulations, on the … for polluting plants in regulated areas. This corresponds to an annual economic cost from the regulation of manufacturing …

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The White House and the Kyoto Protocol: Double Standards on Uncertainties and Their Consequences

Tulkens, Philippe; Tulkens, Henry - 2006

This paper compares the level of uncertainty widely reported in climate change scientific publications with the level of uncertainty of the costs estimates of implementing the Kyoto Protocol in the United States. It argues that these two categories of uncertainties were used and ignored,...

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The White House and the Kyoto Protocol: Double Standards on Uncertainties and Their Consequences

Tulkens, Philippe; Tulkens, Henry - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006

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The Unsustainable Trend of Natural Hazard Losses in the United States

Gall, Melanie; Borden, Kevin A.; Emrich, Christopher T.; … - In: Sustainability 3 (2011) 11, pp. 2157-2181

In the United States, direct losses from natural hazards are on the rise with hurricanes, flooding, and severe storms contributing about three quarters of the total damages. While losses from severe storms have been stable over the past fifty years, hurricane and flood losses have tripled. Per...

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Testing the Environmental Kuznets Curve Hypothesis for Biodiversity Risk in the US: A Spatial Econometric Approach

Tevie, Justin; Grimsrud, Kristine M.; Berrens, Robert P. - In: Sustainability 3 (2011) 11, pp. 2182-2199

This study investigates whether the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) relationship is supported for a measure of biodiversity risk and economic development across the United States (US). Using state-level data for all 48 contiguous states, biodiversity risk is measured using a Modified Index...

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The Rise of U.S. Food Sustainability Litigation

Tai, Steph - 2014

This article provides one of the first critical looks at the interface between the values of the sustainable food movement and its rising use of litigation. In particular, it focuses on two growing areas of food sustainability litigation "challenges to CAFOs and challenges to the use of...

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The Value of Climate Amenities : Evidence from US Migration Decisions

Sinha, Paramita; Cropper, Maureen L. - 2013

We value climate amenities by estimating a discrete location choice model for households that changed metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) between 1995 and 2000. The utility of each MSA depends on location-specific amenities, earnings opportunities, housing costs, and the cost of moving to the...

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The Impact of Climate Change on Mortality in the United States : Benefits and Costs of Adaptation

Deschênes, Olivier - 2022

This paper reviews and extends the recent empirical literature on the impact of climate change on mortality and adaptation in the United States. The analysis produces several new facts. First, the reductions in the impact of extreme heat on mortality risk previously documented up to 2004 have...

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Neonicotinoids in U.S. Maize : Insecticide Substitution Effects and Environmental Risk

Perry, Edward; Moschini, GianCarlo - 2019

This study exploits a novel dataset containing more than 89,000 farm-level surveys over a 17-year period to investigate how neonicotinoid seed treatments in maize, now ubiquitous, have affected the use of other insecticides. Neonicotinoid insecticides are the most used class of insecticides in...

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