Sulfur Dioxide Control by Electric Utilities: What Are the Gains from Trade?
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Sulfur Dioxide Control by Electric Utilities: What Are the Gains from Trade?
Title IV of the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments (CAAA) established a market for transferable sulfur dioxide (SO2) emission allowances among electric utilities. This market offers firms facing high marginal abatement costs the opportunity to purchase the right to emit SO2 from firms with lower costs, and is expected to yield cost savings compared to a command and control approach to environmental ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Political Economy
سال: 2000
ISSN: 0022-3808,1537-534X
DOI: 10.1086/317681