New Sources Of Pollution Research Articles

Transferable Discharge Permits and the Control of Stationary Source Air Pollution: A Survey and Synthesis: Comment

The author challenges a strategy for transferable air discharge permits proposed by T.H. Tietenberg in 1980 on the grounds that parties other than existing or new sources of pollution can participate in a free market and effectively remove portions of the environment from further development. A party with sufficient financial resources to stockpile emission rights could be an environmentalist bent on improving air quality or an industrialist planning his own future expansion. Both would stifle industrial growth. Tietenberg responds by exploring how stockpiling affects allocation efficiency. Since industrial stockpiling will eventually produce revenues, he suggests denying market access to environmental groups. (DCK)

AIR POLLUTION ADMINISTRATIVE TRENDS--THE CANADIAN SCENE.

A re-organized local agency for the administration of an air pollution by-law in a group of adjoining municipalities now employs professional staff together with laboratories for air quality analyses, source testing, and applied research and new ideas in the development of improved fuel-burning and control equipment. The agency functions to prevent new sources of pollution, to disseminate information and advice and to provide leadership in the community. Its administrative activities include the use of consultants and outside research organizations for special problems and subjects of a political or controversial nature. However, to deal with the rare and complex contaminants which may be harmful to health now necessitates some assistance from the higher governments. The practices discussed have been employed for several years with general success in the Municipality, following closely the recommendations of a Select Committee of the Legislative Assembly of the Province which traveled and held hearings 19...