What Do Economists Have to Say about the Clean Air Act 50 Years after the Establishment of the Environmental Protection Agency?

Currie, Janet; Walker, Reed

doi:10.1257/jep.33.4.3

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“…Currie and Walker (2019) provide a more complete overview of the Clean Air Act and associated research by economists.…”

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What Caused Racial Disparities in Particulate Exposure to Fall? New Evidence from the Clean Air Act and Satellite-Based Measures of Air Quality

Currie¹,

Voorheis²,

Walker³

2020

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The research program of the Center for Economic Studies (CES) produces a wide range of economic analyses to improve the statistical programs of the U.S. Census Bureau. Many of these analyses take the form of CES research papers. The papers have not undergone the review accorded Census Bureau publications and no endorsement should be inferred. Any opinions and conclusions expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the views of the U.S. Census Bureau. All results have been reviewed to ensure that no confidential information is disclosed. Republication in whole or part must be cleared with the authors. To obtain information about the series, see www.census.gov/ces or contact

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What Caused Racial Disparities in Particulate Exposure to Fall? New Evidence from the Clean Air Act and Satellite-Based Measures of Air Quality

Currie¹,

Voorheis²,

Walker³

2020

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“…behavioural change) methods. The context of future challenges needs to be seen through a lens of what has been achieved to date; figure 5 shows both UK (1970–2017) and EU (2000–2017) emission reductions for a range of AQ pollutants [52,53]; similar successes have been seen in the USA [47,54]. It is clear that compared with 1970 for the UK there has been a reduction of a wide range of pollutants [52].…”

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What does success look like for air quality policy? A perspective

Monks

Martin

2020

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A.

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This paper explores the drivers and role of science in air quality policy over the last 100 years or so. Case studies on the smogs of Los Angeles and London, acid rain, health impacts of particulate matter, diesel and lead in fuel are used to explore the drivers and models for the interaction of science, evidence and air quality policy. It suggests there are two phases to air quality mitigation, the first driven by the air quality emergency as the pollution is visible and the effects can be relatively obvious and the second driven by science that is directed towards continuous improvement. A critical element of the ‘science phase’ is the evidence base, the models of evidence-based and -informed policy-making are explored with the conclusion that it is optimal when guided by the ideal of co-creation of knowledge and policy options between scientists and policy-makers. The future and wider drivers for air quality are detailed with a number of key areas for ‘success’ indicated as important for air quality policy development such as continuous improvement. Overall, we find there is tension between two factors: the ambition to reduce emissions, improve air quality and reduce the impacts on public health and the environment on one hand, and questions of cost, technical feasibility and societal acceptability on the other. This article is part of a discussion meeting issue ‘Air quality, past present and future’.

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“…Our paper builds on a growing literature that uses quasi-experimental research designs to estimate how regulations, production, and transportation affect air quality (Currie and Neidell, 2005;Currie et al, 2015;Schlenker and Walker, 2015;Isen et al, 2017). With respect to regulation, Currie et al (2019) summarizes a large body of work that has evaluated the impact of the Clean Air Act over the past 50 years. One of their distilled conclusions is that there has been a reduction in concentrations of regulated pollutions, even though not all of the reduction can be directly attributed to the Clean Air Act.…”

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Death of Coal and Breath of Life: The Effect of Power Plant Closure on Local Air Quality

Brown¹,

Tousey²

2020

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The number of U.S. coal-fired power plants declined by nearly 250 between 2001 and 2018. Given that burning coal generates large amounts of particulate matter is known to have adverse health effects, closure of coal-fired power plants should improve local air quality. Using spatial panel data from air quality monitor stations and coal-fired power plants, we estimate the relationship between plant closure and local air quality. We find that on average, the levels of particulate matter within 25 and 50 mile buffers around air quality monitors declined between 7 and 14 percent with each closure. We estimate that the event of closure is associated with a 0.6 percent decline in local mortality probabilities. On a value of statistical life basis, the median local benefit of coal power plant closure ranged between $1 and $4 billion or 5 to 15 percent of local GDP since the early 2000s.

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What Do Economists Have to Say about the Clean Air Act 50 Years after the Establishment of the Environmental Protection Agency?

Cited by 67 publications

References 50 publications

What Caused Racial Disparities in Particulate Exposure to Fall? New Evidence from the Clean Air Act and Satellite-Based Measures of Air Quality

What Caused Racial Disparities in Particulate Exposure to Fall? New Evidence from the Clean Air Act and Satellite-Based Measures of Air Quality

What does success look like for air quality policy? A perspective

Death of Coal and Breath of Life: The Effect of Power Plant Closure on Local Air Quality

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