USA: continuing battles over "acceptable" air quality standards

Rational establishment of air quality standards.

This paper attempts to apply two principles of rationality--efficiency and equity--to the establishment of air quality standards for total suspended particulates in the USA. It is argued that standard setting should embrace either the use of some cost-benefit-risk criterion, or some concept of equity whereby risks are not reduced below levels judged to be acceptable elsewhere. There is often a ...

Battles over Product Boundaries Battles over Product Boundaries and the Double Mark-up Problem

Previous studies on “tying” are based on the premise that there are clear boundaries between tied products. However, in the computing industry there are constant battles over boundaries between complementary products. A dominant firm in one layer of a multilayered system usually attempts to extend into other layers by including some of the latter’s functions into its own products. For instance,...

High resolution air quality simulation over Europe

Introduction Conclusions References

National Ambient Air Quality Standards for Particulate Matter ; Final Rule

The continuing evolution of EDA standards