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Local Solutions to Global Problems: Climate Change Policies and Regulatory Jurisdiction
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In this article, the efficacy of various types of environmental regulations when they are applied locally to pollutants, such as greenhouse gases, whose damages extend beyond the jurisprudence, is investigated.Abstract:
This article considers the efficacy of various types of environmental regulations when they are applied locally to pollutants, such as greenhouse gases, whose damages extend beyond the juri...read more
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The Social Costs and Benefits of Biofuels: The Intersection of Environmental, Energy and Agricultural Policy
Harry de Gorter,David R. Just +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the efficacy of alternative biofuel policies in achieving energy, environmental and agricultural policy goals is assessed using economic cost-benefit analysis, showing that government mandates are superior to consumption subsidies, especially with suboptimal fuel taxes and the higher costs involved with raising tax revenues.
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National and Sub-national Policies and Institutions
Eswaran Somanathan,Thomas Sterner,Taishi Sugiyama,Donald Chimanikire,Navroz K. Dubash,Joseph Kow Essandoh‐Yeddu,Solomone Fifita,Lawrence H. Goulder,Adam Jaffe,Xavier Labandeira,Shunsuke Managi,Catherine Mitchell,Juan-Pablo Montero,Fei Teng,Tomasz Zylicz +14 more
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Emissions Taxes Versus Intensity Standards: Second-Best Environmental Policies with Incomplete Regulation.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compare the performance of the best emissions tax or emissions cap under incomplete regulation (leakage) with the best intensity standard (regulating emissions per unit of output).
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Vehicle Scrappage and Gasoline Policy
TL;DR: In this article, the sensitivity of scrap decisions to changes in used car values and show how this "scrap elasticity" produces emissions leakage under fuel efficiency standards, a process known as the Gruenspecht effect.
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Unintended consequences from nested state and federal regulations: The case of the Pavley greenhouse-gas-per-mile limits $
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reveal significant unintended consequences from recent 14-state efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through limits on greenhouse gases per mile from new cars, and show that while such efforts significantly reduce emissions from new vehicles sold in the adopting states, they cause substantial emissions increases from new car sold in other (non-adopting) states and from used cars.
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Use of U.S. Croplands for Biofuels Increases Greenhouse Gases Through Emissions from Land-Use Change
Tim Searchinger,Ralph E. Heimlich,Richard A. Houghton,Fengxia Dong,Amani Elobeid,Jacinto F. Fabiosa,Simla Tokgoz,Dermot J. Hayes,Tun-Hsiang Yu +8 more
TL;DR: This article found that corn-based ethanol, instead of producing a 20% savings, nearly doubled greenhouse emissions over 30 years and increased greenhouse gases for 167 years, by using a worldwide agricultural model to estimate emissions from land-use change.
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What Can We Learn from the Grand Policy Experiment? Lessons from SO2 Allowance Trading
TL;DR: The JSTOR Archive as mentioned in this paper is a trusted digital repository providing for long-term preservation and access to leading academic journals and scholarly literature from around the world, including the Journal of Economic Perspectives.
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The Impacts of Environmental Regulations on Industrial Activity: Evidence from the 1970 and 1977 Clean Air Act Amendments and the Census of Manufactures
TL;DR: In this paper, the Clean Air Act's division of counties into pollutant-specific nonattainment and attainment categories on measures of industrial activity obtained from 1.75 million plant observations from the Census of Manufactures.
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To Tax or Not to Tax: Alternative Approaches to Slowing Global Warming
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compare quantity-oriented mechanisms like the Kyoto Protocol with price-type control mechanisms such as internationally harmonized carbon taxes and conclude that carbon taxes have major advantages for slowing global warming.
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Effects of Air Quality Regulation on in Polluting Industries
TL;DR: In this article, the unintended effects of air quality regulation were examined using plant data for 1963-92, showing that large preregulation plants do benefit from grandfathering provisions, but both grandfathering and shifts to small-scale new plants contribute to environmental degradation.