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...late 1980s he turned his attention to air pollution. At the time, one of the biggest environmental threats facing America was forest-killing acid rain, due chiefly to rising levels of sulfur dioxide (SO2) and nitrogen oxide (NO) from coal power plants, factories and cars. The answer was simple - reduce those emissions - but the way to get there wasn't. (Any similarities to where we stand on global warming are purely intentional.) The government could simply mandate reduced emissions, or force power plants to install expensive SO2 and NO scrubbers, but that might not be efficient. To Sandor, the answer...
...right to pollute - even while requiring them to reduce that pollution - was anathema, as if it made some form of pollution O.K. But you can't argue with results - emissions of SO2 and NO have dropped drastically, as has acid rain. Emissions trading worked because by pricing the air, it helps drive innovation towards pollution control and efficiency, funded in part by the value of the emissions trading market. (Companies that spent to lower their emissions beneath the cap could recoup that investment by selling their excess emissions credits.) Just as importantly, it did so on the cheap...
Three prominent University scholars discussed the application of quantitative methods in taking on the challenge of air pollution at a public event yesterday sponsored by the Harvard China Fund (HCF). The organization, “an internal [Harvard] foundation to support research and teaching about and in China” according to its Web site, hosted the seminar entitled “Reconciling Economic Growth and Air Pollution Control in China: An Integrated Approach.” The event’s speakers included School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Professor Chris P. Nielsen and other researchers working on air...
Argentina's capital city of Buenos Aires awoke under an acrid cloud as an ecological disaster of major proportions covered the city. Thick smoke from out-of-control grass fires raging in the large islands of the Parana River Delta some 30 minutes north of the city rolled over urban areas, resulting in the closing of airports, ports and bus terminals. Meanwhile, the authorities were forced to block highway motor traffic following a number of fatal acciddents on smoke-choked national roads. The air has been unbreathable; asthmatics were suffering, as were infants...
...government of President Cristina Fernandez blamed farmers for the increasingly unbreathable air. It continues to be on the political offensive against the private agricultural sector following a major farm strike against export taxes earlier this month. "This is the largest fire of this kind we've ever seen," said Interior Minister Florencio Randazzo in an emergency press conference at the Casa Rosada presidential palace. "It was started by farmers clearing land for cattle grazing driven by greed for profit with total disregard for human life." The President was just as harsh. "This is not a natural disaster, this...