Incentive-Based Environmental Regulation: A New Era from an Old Idea
@article{Hahn1990IncentiveBasedER, title={Incentive-Based Environmental Regulation: A New Era from an Old Idea}, author={Robert W. Hahn and Robert Stavins}, journal={Ecology Law Quarterly}, year={1990}, volume={18}, pages={1} }
During the twenty years since Earth Day in 1970, a host of environmental laws and regulations have been enacted, and substantial gains have been made in environmental protection. The United States and the world at large, however, continue to face major environmental threats both ongoing problems, such as urban smog, groundwater pollution, and acid rain, and newly recognized problems, including the threat of global climate change. As the decade of the 1990's begins, political leaders are giving…
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