Grandfathering and coal plant emissions: The cost of cleaning up the Clean Air Act

Energy Policy

Volumn 27, Issue 15, 1999, Pages 929-940

  Ackerman, Frank ^a   Biewald, Bruce ^b   White, David ^b   Woolf, Tim ^b   Moomaw, William ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Synapse Energy Economics   (United States)

Author keywords

Coal plants; Emissions trading; Grandfathering

Indexed keywords

COAL PLANTS; EMISSIONS TRADING;

AIR POLLUTION CONTROL; COAL COMBUSTION; ELECTRIC POWER PLANTS; ELECTRIC RATES; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; FOSSIL FUEL POWER PLANTS; GAS EMISSIONS; INDUSTRIAL EMISSIONS; LAWS AND LEGISLATION; NITROGEN OXIDES; SULFUR DIOXIDE;

ENERGY POLICY;

COAL-FIRED POWER PLANT; ECONOMIC INSTRUMENT; EMISSION CONTROL; EMISSIONS TRADING;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033496424     PISSN: 03014215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-4215(99)00086-5     Document Type: Article

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