Markets for clean air : the U.S. acid rain program / A. Denny Ellerman ... [et al.]
Imprint
New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005
Descript
xxi, 362 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
CONTENT
Background: A market-based experiment ; A political history of federal acid rain legislation ; The political economy of allowance allocations ; The pre-1995 trend in SO2 emissions -- Compliance and trading: Title IV compliance and emission reductions, 1995-97 ; Emissions trading: the effect on abatement behavior ; Emissions: trading: development of the allowance market ; Title IV's voluntary compliance program ; Cost of compliance with title IV in phase I -- Questions and immplication: Cost savings from emissions trading ; Errors, imperfections, and allowance prices
SUBJECT
Emissions trading -- United States
Air quality management -- Government policy -- United States
Acid rain -- Environmental aspects -- Government policy -- United States