Key themes in optimal regulatory design include the merits of sharp incentives for pollution prevention using negligence-type rules; flexible regulation that allows interfirm trading of pollution rights; landowner rights regimes that elicit efficient location decisions in coming-to-the-nuisance situations; and potential environmental costs of extended (lender) liability for environmental harm.
He hasn't a clue about Republicans' historic contributions to science-driven environmental policy: the incontestable environmental improvements in the restored lakes and rivers, the acid rain controls, the reduction of key air pollutants by 70, 80 and 90%, and the sharp decline in pollution from automobiles even as their numbers more than doubled".
It worked, delivering a sharp reduction in pollution at lower-than-predicted cost.
In Houston, a new generation of business leaders, alarmed by the city's smog problem, is calling for solutions that include sharp reductions in pollution from nearby refineries.
Some parks, like Acadia National Park in Maine, have been able to use mass transit to reduce the number of cars greatly and, as a result, have seen a sharp decline in air pollution.
A sharp rise in methane pollution could jeopardise the goal – enshrined in the 196-nation Paris climate pact – of capping global warming below 2C, a consortium of 81 scientists warned in December.
The findings of these two studies support a sharper focus on air pollution as a leading global health concern..
Sharp spikes in Delhi's pollution often come from dust storms blowing in from the Gulf.
Raising fears that breakneck economic growth is having a dire impact on the nation's health, a government survey blamed pollution for a sharp rise in cancer cases.
Under the influence of humans and natural disturbances, the HQHL wetland faced enormous ecological risks, water pollution, area reduction, sharp biodiversity reduction, and fish extinction.
