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Showing 1 to 20 of 47 for “"Clean Air Act"”.
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COAL, GLOBAL WARMING, AND THE CLEAN AIR ACT
… to the problem. The study suggests that the Clean Air Act has ceded to much legislative power to the Executive branch of government, and that success in reducing carbon dioxide emissions from coal-fired power plants is too dependent on the will of the Executive.</p>
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The institutionalization of citizen participation in the Clean Air Act
… Interest Groups (CIGs) have become an important factor in the implementation of environmental regulations and hence in the allocation of scarce resources via the political process. This study examines the impact of environmental CIGs on the implementation of the Clean Air Act. It does so by …
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Strategic and tactical models and algorithms for the coal industry under the 1990 Clean Air Act
… effect of The Acid Rain Provision of the 1990 Clean Air Act on the investment, production, and distribution operations in the coal industry, with a concentration on the development of new mines, shutting down of inefficient strips of existing mines, and on blending and distribution problems. …
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The forces that shape transportation control measures under the Clean Air Act : a case study of Cambridge, Massachusetts
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1994.
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Community-based evaluation of the air toxic provisions of title III of the 1990 clean air act amendments : risks, costs and benefits
Hazardous air pollutants (HAPs) are those pollutants that are known or suspected to cause cancer, serious health effects, or adverse environmental effects. People exposed to HAPs at sufficient concentrations and durations may have an increased risk of getting cancer or experiencing other health …
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Effectiveness of the Clean Air Act on SO₂ emissions from U.S. electric utilities : a detailed analysis of the influence of attainment status and unit-level characteristics on the reduction of SO₂ emissions from 1976 to 2002
The continuing degradation of air quality in the U.S. during the 1950s and 1960s has led to increasing federal regulations to control air pollution. The Clean Air Act Amendments of 1970 and 1977 were major pieces of legislation to impose tight controls on air polluters. One of the major pollution …
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The presidency and environmental policymaking: A critical assessment of George Bush
… Owing to developments such as the passage of the Clean Air Act and the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, the significance of addressing environmental challenges has garnered both domestic and international attention. In providing guidance for American environmental …
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Role of Environmental Self -Auditing and Audit Policies in Regulatory Compliance
… efforts to self-audit on compliance with Clean Air Act regulations. It also examines the effect that state audit and immunity laws have on the incentives for improving compliance. Using data for a sample of S&P 500 firms, we estimate a bivariate probit model with compliance status and …
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A Study of the Feasibility of the Application of United States Command-and-Control Regulations and Market-Based Incentives to Solve Industrial Air Pollution Problems in Thailand
Thailand's industrial air pollution control is in an immediate need for change. Despite increasing concerns among the population on the depreciating air quality, current legislations, monitoring system and enforcement mechanism have proven yet to be effective. This study explores the feasibility of …
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Vehicle classification profiles for interstates and non-interstates in West Virginia to be used for MOBILE6 modeling
Under the Federal Clean Air Act, the United States Environmental Protection Agency sets nationwide standards for maximum permissible levels of air pollution, while States retain primary responsibility for monitoring air quality to comply with these standards. MOBILE6 is a computer model developed …
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Three Essays on the Impacts of Air Pollution and Environmental Policy
… policy - specifically that which regards air pollution - on health, labor market, and environmental outcomes. The first chapter examines the potential long-term effects of childhood exposure to atmospheric lead. The outcome of interest is crime, and the policy analyzed is the leaded …
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Three Quasi-Experimental and Experimental Papers in Environmental Economics
… the ozone regulation contained in the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments. Chapter two explores the impacts how economic and social-psychology factors affect the adoption of an environmental technology, namely compact fluorescent light bulbs. In order to consider these factors, chapter two …
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Managing pavement in a busy urban highway network
… of pavement management. The first model characterizes over some medium-range planning horizon changes in peak-period traffic volumes, pavement conditions, vehicle miles traveled, and volatile organic compounds emissions. When used in optimal control exercises, this model determines the …
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There's no justice in transit! : transit equity, land use, and air quality in Boston
As a result of air pollution created by the Central Artery/Tunnel Project (CA/T), aka "the Big Dig," transit and other air quality mitigation projects were incorporated into the State Implementation Plan (SIP). The SIP is mandated by the Clean Air Act (CAA) for areas that do not attain or need to …
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Regulating mercury with the Clear Skies Act : the resulting impacts on innovation, human health, and the global community
The 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments require the U.S. EPA to control mercury emission outputs from coal-burning power plants through implementation of MACT, Maximum Achievable Control Technology, standards. However, in 2003 the Bush Administration revealed an alternative and controversial regulatory …
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Essays in development and environmental economics
… of U.S. based multinational firms to the Clean Air Act Amendments (CAAA), which dramatically strengthened U.S. environmental regulation. Using a panel of firm-level data over the period 1966-1999, I estimate the effect of regulation on a multinational's foreign production decisions. The …
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Regulatory competition and the politics of environmental enforcement
… instruments vis-a.-vis other states for attracting economic investment, the empirical literature has lagged far behind in testing the direct predictions of the race to the bottom argument. The purpose of this project is test the applicability of the race to the bottom argument in U.S. state …
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A Comparison of Solvent and Water-Borne Alkyd Coatings and the History of VOC Regulations in the United States
… of Solvent and Water-Borne Alkyd Coatings Abstract</strong></p> <p><strong></strong>Conventional solvent based alkyd coatings have gone out of favor due to concerns over volatile organic compound (VOC) content. However, due to recent focus on renewable raw materials, alkyds are making a comeback …
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Economic and policy implications of urban air pollution in the United States, 1970 to 2000
… we valued the economic benefit of reduced air pollution due to the Clean Air Act regulations to be over $7 trillion from 1970 to 2000, or 2.1% of aggregate US economic welfare over the period. This does not include the benefits into the future (after 2000) from reduction in mortality due …
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Sustainable development or just plain development? An analysis of sustainability indicators for Chattanooga, Tennessee
… several environmental areas, including improved air and water quality since the 1970's, much of this improvement is largely due to federallyadopted laws such as the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, and the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA). Many …
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