The declining trend in sulfur dioxide emissions: Implications for allowance prices
Journal Article
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· Journal of Environmental Economics and Management
- Massachusetts Inst. of Tech., Cambridge, MA (United States)
- Catholic Univ. of Chile, Santiago (Chile). Dept. of Industrial Engineering
In this paper, the authors find that sulfur dioxide (SO{sub 2}) emissions by electric utilities declined from 1985 to 1993 for reasons largely unrelated to the emission reduction mandate of Title IV of the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments. The principal reason appears to be the decline in rail rates for low-sulfur western coal delivered to higher-sulfur coal-fired plants in the Midwest. Consequently, there is less sulfur to be removed to meet the Title IV cap on aggregate SO{sub 2} emissions, and the cost of compliance and price of allowances can be expected to be less than would otherwise have been the case.
- OSTI ID:
- 658991
- Journal Information:
- Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Journal Name: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 36; ISSN 0095-0696; ISSN JEEMDI
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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