The SO2 Allowance Trading System: The Ironic History of a Grand Policy Experiment

Two decades have passed Two decades have passed since the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 launched a grand experiment in market-based environmental policy: the SO2 cap-and-trade system. That system performed well but created four striking ironies. First, by creating this system to reduce SO2 emis...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Schmalensee, Richard, Stavins, Robert N.
Format: Working Paper
Language:en_US
Published: MIT CEEPR 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/72007