History has shown that the benefits of clean air regulation outweigh the costs by a factor of more than 30 to 1, she said.
General Motors and DaimlerChrysler agreed to drop lawsuits against California over a landmark clean air regulation, the Zero Emission Vehicle mandate, that will put millions of low- and zero-emission vehicles on the state's roads from 2005 to 2020.
As our primary contribution, we contrast the effect of clean water regulation on actual profitability outcomes and its effects on investors' expectations of profitability.
Thus, our empirical results demonstrate that investors do not appear to value the positive effect of tighter clean water regulation on actual profitability.
In particular, we estimate the effect of clean water regulation, as reflected in the stringency of firm-specific effluent limits for two regulated pollutants, on the profitability of chemical manufacturing firms.
Because children spend much of their time in the home, outside the sphere of most clean air regulation, they have higher levels and rates of exposure to SHS than adults [ 3].
The choice of Ms. McCarthy is likely to generate considerable opposition because she is identified with several of the Obama administration's most ambitious clean air regulations, including proposed greenhouse gas regulations for new power plants.
It is true that the mercury rule, and other clean air regulations, will require substantial upgrades in older, coal-burning power plants and force others to close down.
The various industries responsible for much of the country's air pollution -- the oil companies, the automakers, the big utilities -- have usually resisted federal clean air regulations, routinely overestimating the costs of the regulations while underestimating the ability of their engineers to satisfy them.
Because its clean air regulations predate the federal Clean Air Act of 1970, California was allowed to maintain its own tougher regulations.
