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The Next Restructuring: Environmental Regulation

Abstract:
From oil, to natural gas, and now electricity, the regulation of energy markets has been successively restructured to allow greater scope to market forces. The likely next domain for restructuring, environmental regulation, may seem far fetched now, but it is no more so than the restructuring of electric utility regulation would have seemed to be twenty years ago. The "grand experiment" with emissions trading under the U.S. acid rain program has set a propitious example by showing that markets in environmental goods can be constructed and that the explicit recognition of property rights in the use of the environment is compatible with effective and non-intrusive environmental regulation.

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Energy Specializations: Petroleum – Policy and Regulation; Natural Gas – Policy and Regulation; Coal – Policy and Regulation; Energy and the Environment – Policy and Regulation

JEL Codes: Q58: Environmental Economics: Government Policy, Q53: Air Pollution; Water Pollution; Noise; Hazardous Waste; Solid Waste; Recycling, Q24: Renewable Resources and Conservation: Land, Q21: Renewable Resources and Conservation: Demand and Supply; Prices

Keywords: Environmental regulaion, energy policy, acid rain, air pollution

DOI: 10.5547/ISSN0195-6574-EJ-Vol20-No1-8

Published in Volume20, Number 1 of the bi-monthly journal of the IAEE's Energy Economics Education Foundation.

 

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