This Article evaluates Dirty Input Limits (“DILs”), quantitative limits on the inputs that cause pollution. An environmental protection instrument that the literature has hitherto largely overlooked, DILs provide an alternative to cumbersome output-based emissions trading and performance standards. DILs have played a role in some of the world’s most prominent environmental success stories. They...

BACKGROUND Alongside the major health risks posed by environmental pollution in China are recent achievements on several environmental issues that have affluent Western nations racing to catch up. The country has propelled itself to a position of leadership in clean energy and efficiency, for instance, with important consequences for public health. OBJECTIVES We comment on China's challenges ...

This paper examines the intersection between environmental pollution and people's acknowledgements of, and responses to, health issues in Karhera, a former agricultural village situated between the rapidly expanding cities of New Delhi (India's capital) and Ghaziabad (an industrial district in Uttar Pradesh). A relational place-based view is integrated with an interpretive approach, highlightin...

The dynamics of ozone in the San Joaquin Valley of central California are studied by systematic diagnostic runs of the three-dimensional SARMAP Air Quality Model. Air quality in the San Joaquin Valley is the result of a complex combination of local and transported emissions. Simulations show that relatively brisk winds at points of in#ow to the Valley produce a strong dependence of ozone in the...

The social cost of carbon may be the most important number you’ve never heard of. U.S. climate legislation may or may not make it through Congress this year, but in the meantime, the Environmental Protection Agency is moving ahead, authorized by the Supreme Court to limit greenhouse gas emissions. The Department of Energy is setting energy efficiency standards for residential appliances and com...

Abstract Thermal emission spectra can provide key insights into the composition and thermophysical properties of regolith on Moon other airless bodies. However, under lunar surface environmental conditions, uppermost millimeters (from which thermal originates) cannot be characterized by a single temperature, leading to changes in spectral characteristics that should accounted for interpreting m...

This study analyzes the relationship between firms’ financial performance and their environmental performance, with a particular focus on greenhouse gas-intensive industries. Using data of international listed companies from 2011 to 2017, impact performances was estimated, measured multiple indicators that take into account disclosure aspects. The analysis conducted across different industry ag...

This paper established a system dynamics model of energy saving and emission reduction in coal mining area, as well as conducted simulation of different development plans, based on the analysis of energy saving and emission reduction factor of coal production links, of the complex structure of energy saving and emission reduction system in coal mining area, and of the dynamic feed-back mechanis...