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The Cost of Environmental Protection [PDF]

Review of Economics and Statistics, 2001
Reported expenditures for environmental protection are often cited as an assessment of the burden of current regulatory efforts. However, the potential for both incidental savings and uncounted costs means that the actual burden could be either higher or lower than these reported values.
Richard D. Morgenstern, William A. Pizer, Jhih-Shyang Shih   +2 more
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Environmental costs of mercury pollution

Science of The Total Environment, 2006
Mercury (Hg) has been used for millennia in many applications, primarily in artisanal mining and as an electrode in the chlor-alkali industry. It is anthropogenically emitted as a pollutant from coal fired power plants and naturally emitted, primarily from volcanoes.
Hylander, Lars D., Goodsite, Michael Evan   +1 more
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Environmental Impacts and Costs of Energy

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2006
Abstract:  Environmental damage is one of the main justifications for continued efforts to reduce energy consumption and to shift to cleaner sources such as solar energy. In recent years there has been much progress in the analysis of environmental damages, in particular thanks to the ExternE (External Costs of Energy) Project of the European ...
Rabl, Ari, Spadaro, Joseph
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Discussion on Environmental Cost Accounting and Environmental Cost Control

2011 International Conference on Management and Service Science, 2011
This article demonstrates the situation that the demand for environmental accounting is increasing and the relevance of environmental accounting information is becoming significant. Then it discusses the difficulties confronting in China now, which include the lags behind of theory research, the lack of systematical research and the lack of imposed ...
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Environmental Externalities and Cost of Capital

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2011
Ianalyze the impact of a firm's environmental profile on its cost of equity and debt capital. Using implied cost of capital derived from analysts' earnings estimates, I find that investors demand significantly higher expected returns on stocks excluded by environmental screens (such as hazardous chemical, substantial emissions, and climate change ...
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Environmental costs in European aviation

Transport Policy, 2001
This paper presents estimates of environmental costs in a set of 36 European airline markets. Cost are calculated for noise, air pollution and accident risk using data on aircraft emissions, exposure-response parameters and economic valuation of environmental goods. The 'medium value' cost estimate is 0.0201ECU per passenger-km.
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The Environmental Cost of Inequality

Scientific American
The article discusses the relation of economic inequality in the U.S. on the impact of environmental degradation on poor people. Topics include research on the relation between social power and environmental degradation, the relation of political power to economic resources, and the impact of environmental injustice on the health of children.
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Environmental costs of photovoltaics

IEE Proceedings A Science, Measurement and Technology, 1993
Photovoltaic (PV) systems are almost entirely benign in operation, and potential environmental hazards occur at the production and disposal stages. There are well established methods of monitoring and controlling potential hazards caused by the semiconductor materials used in PV modules such as silicon, copper indium diselenide and cadmium telluride ...
R. Hill, A.E. Baumann
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Estimating Environmental Costs

Environmental Claims Journal, 2015
A database of environmental remediation costs is described as the response cost database (RCD). The database, which contains both capital and operating costs, includes 220 entries for complete activities ranging from studies to remedy components, such as caps, dredging, and pump and treat systems.
Neil S. Shifrin, Bryan S. Pitts, Aaron C. Chow   +2 more
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The Cost of Environmental Compliance

SPE/IADC Drilling Conference, 1989
ABSTRACT The objective of this presentation is to summarize the nature and scope of the more major costs of environmental compliance as they apply to the field operations of oil and gas well drilling and production. An analysis of the appropriate federal laws is also addressed and included are the necessary reporting levels in both the ...
D.A. Stewart, J.D. Templet
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