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The costs of environmental protection [PDF]

open access: yes, 1993
Recently, some have argued that tougher environmental policies can create jobs, stimulate innovation, and enhance competitiveness. On this view, economic side effects make environmental protection a sort of green free lunch. This essay provides an overview of the level and industrial incidence of environmental protection costs in the U.S. and shows why
Schmalensee, Richard
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The Cost of Environmental Protection [PDF]

open access: possibleReview 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   +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.   +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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