The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) maintains networks of pollution monitors for two basic purposes: to check and enforce the attainment of national ambient air quality standards (NAAQS) and to provide useful data for studying pollution and its effects. These purposes imply...

Glossary, acronyms, and abbreviations -- Foreword -- Executive summary -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Part 1. The nitrous oxide challenge. Chapter 2. N2O: its role in climate change and ozone layer depletion -- Chapter 3. N2O: sources, inventories, projections -- Part 2. Solutions to the N2O...

We present a proof-of-concept analysis of the measurement of the health damage of ozone (O3) produced from nitrogen oxides (NOx = NO + NO2) emitted by individual large point sources in the eastern United States. We use a regional atmospheric model of the eastern United States, the Comprehensive...

Im September 2009 ratifizierte Timor-Leste (Osttimor) als letztes von 196 Ländern das αMontreal-Protokoll über Stoffe, die zum Abbau der Ozonschicht führen±. Das Protokoll von 1987 stellt damit das bedeutendste multilaterale Umweltabkommen und die erste internationale Vereinbarung dar, die...

There has been a recent economic literature arguing that international environmental agreements (IEAs) can have no real effect, on account of their voluntary and self-enforcing nature. This literature concludes that the terms of IEAs are the codification of the noncooperative equilibrium, and...