How stringent are the US EPA's proposed carbon pollution standards for new power plants?

Review of Environmental Economics and Policy

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 290-306

  Kotchen, Matthew J ^a   Mansur, Erin T ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON EMISSION; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; EMISSION CONTROL; POLLUTION POLICY; POWER PLANT;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84897854074     PISSN: 17506816     EISSN: 17506824     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/reep/reu003     Document Type: Article

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