Title | Date | Views | Brief Description |
North Carolina’s Clean Smokestacks Act: untangling a tangled relationship |
2018 |
856 |
This dissertation analyzes North Carolina’s Clean Smokestacks Act (CSA). By targeting sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides emissions at fourteen coal-fired powerplants owned by Duke Energy and Progress Energy, the CSA implements utility level caps in ... |
The health effects of automobile fuel economy through improvements in air quality |
2017 |
938 |
In this dissertation, I evaluate the health effects of the automobile (or vehicle) fuel economy. Automobile fuel economy is regulated by the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards put into effect in 1975 in the United States primarily to red... |
Emissions taxes vs. intensity standards revisited: a general equilibrium analysis |
2021 |
195 |
This dissertation applies general equilibrium techniques to the comparison of two applied environmental policies that are designed to reduce CO2 emissions: the cap and trade regulatory mechanism and the emissions per output regulatory mechanism. The ... |