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Keyword: Environmental Protection Agency


The Right to Pollute? (10/20/1999)

Pollution credits convert the atmosphere from a commons into private property. They can reduce pollution if the pollution cap is lower than the unrestricted total and lower the costs of reducing pollution if credits can be sold from low-cost avoiders and high-cost avoiders.

Keywords: allowances, Clean Air Act, commons, emissions, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, greenhouse gases, nitrogen oxide, pollution, pollution credits, private property, quotas, sulfur dioxide, trading, utilities.