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...

Demand for air quality depends on health impacts and defensive investments that improve health, but little research assesses the empirical importance of defenses. We study an important cap-and-trade market, which dramatically reduced NOx emissions, a key ingredient in ozone formation. A rich...

Ground level ozone remains a serious problem in the United States. Because ozone non-attainment is a summer problem, episodic rather than continuous controls of ozone precursors are possible. We evaluate the costs and effectiveness of an episodic scheme that requires people to buy permits in...

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...