Pesticides and Politics: The Life Cycle of a Public Issue. By Christopher J. Bosso. Blue Skies, Green Politics: The Clean Air Act of 1990. By Gary C. Bryner. Cooperative Pluralism: The National Coal Policy Experiment. By Andrew S. McFarland. Presidential Influence and Environmental Policy. By Robert A. Shanley

1995 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Environmental Policy ◽  
Clean Air Act ◽  
Public Issue ◽  
Green Politics ◽  
Clean Air ◽  
Policy Experiment ◽  
Presidential Influence

scholarly journals What Can We Learn from the Grand Policy Experiment? Lessons from SO2 Allowance Trading

1998 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 69-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert N Stavins
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Sulfur Dioxide ◽  
Acid Rain ◽  
Clean Air Act ◽  
Design And Implementation ◽  
Allowance Trading ◽  
Clean Air ◽  
Policy Experiment ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Trading Program

The most ambitious application ever attempted of a market-based approach to environmental protection has been for the control of acid rain under the Clean Air Act amendments of 1990, which established a sulfur dioxide allowance trading program. This essay identifies lessons that can be learned from this grand experiment in economically oriented environmental policy. The author examines positive political economy lessons, asking why this system was adopted from acid-rain control in 1990, and he considers normative lessons that can be learned from the program's structure and performance, focusing on lessons for the design and implementation of future systems.

scholarly journals Does Environmental Policy Affect Income Inequality? Evidence from the Clean Air Act

2019 ◽  
Vol 109 ◽  
pp. 271-276
Author(s):  
Akshaya Jha ◽  
Peter H. Matthews ◽  
Nicholas Z. Muller
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Policy ◽  
Income Inequality ◽  
Fine Particulate Matter ◽  
Ambient Air ◽  
Clean Air Act ◽  
Environmental Benefits ◽  
Pollution Levels ◽  
Pollution Damage ◽  
Clean Air ◽  
The Impact

This paper quantifies the impact of environmental policy on income inequality. We focus on the Clean Air act and the National Ambient Air Quality standards for fine particulate matter and ozone. Using a matched difference-in-differences estimator, we find evidence that both standards increased inequality in market income and a measure of income that deducts per-capita air pollution damage from adjusted gross income. While pollution standards can reduce pollution levels and thus result in significant environmental benefits in aggregate, our findings suggest that these standards appear to distort the distribution of economic resources in complex, and at times unfortunate, ways.

Blue skies, green politics: The Clean Air Act of 1990

1994 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 285-286
Author(s):  
Jean Slemmons Stratford ◽  
Juri Stratford ◽  
Richard Churchill
Keyword(s):  
Clean Air Act ◽  
Green Politics ◽  
Clean Air
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