The U.S. and Canada limited the use of phosphate laundry detergents and cracked down on Great Lakes pollution from industry and municipal sewage systems four decades ago.
The paper estimates the air pollution damages for each industry in the United States.
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In a mid-April report on greenhouse emissions, the agency now says that tighter pollution controls instituted by the industry resulted in an average annual decrease of 41.6 million metric tons of methane emissions from 1990 through 2010, or more than 850 million metric tons overall.
Pielke noted that the success of the pollution controls also means that the industry "probably can go further" in reducing leaks.
Probably not: the price of sugar would drop, America's sugar industry would decline and the pollution of the Everglades would decrease.
Aldy said the economic benefits from avoided health problems and saved lives are clear while Cass said the cost to industry to adhere to the air pollution limits is not worth it.
Cap-and-trade works like this: Governments set pollution limits and then credits are either auctioned or allocated to industry.
After suffering a punishing year because of low natural gas prices, the wind power industry is keeping close watch on the prospect that water pollution from hydraulic fracturing may lead to regulation of shale gas drilling.
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The coal industry may be fighting new federal emissions standards, air-pollution regulations and even the idea of carbon pricing, but those things are all a boon for carbon-free nuclear power.
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An integrated-assessment model quantifies the marginal damages of air pollution emissions for the US which are multiplied times the quantity of emissions by industry to compute gross damages.
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Hydrogen has the virtue of removing the auto industry from the environmental debate, even if it creates the same or more pollution upstream.
Its impact on U.S. industry was arguably overrated given our evolution toward a service economy, but the externalities of pollution limits had the potential to be unfortunate.
Professor Roy Harrison, a member of two UK government advisory committees on air pollution, said US research had provided strong evidence that fine particles contained in emissions from vehicles and industry caused cancer.
The industry that deals with it is becoming more efficient, the technologies are getting more effective and the pollution it causes is being controlled more tightly.
"If we only rely on domestic resources to develop the animal-husbandry industry, China's grain production will face challenges, and there will be more serious environmental pollution problems, " Mr. Li said.
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The oil and gas industry has said the EPA has overestimated emissions of methane and argued that they already were working to reduce pollution, without the agency's intervention.
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