Regulating Mercury: What's at Stake?

Posted: 26 Oct 2005

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Robert W. Hahn

Carnegie Mellon University; Technology Policy Institute

Ted Gayer

Brookings Institution

Abstract

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued a new rule regulating mercury emissions from power plants. But is the rule sensible?

The best way to answer this question is to tote up the benefits and costs of the rule and compare them. The EPA did not do such an exercise when it issued its proposed rule, so we did our own analysis.

Suggested Citation

Hahn, Robert W. and Gayer, Ted, Regulating Mercury: What's at Stake?. AEI-Brookings Joint Center Working Paper No. 05-07, Science, Vol. 309, No. 5732, pp. 244-245, July 8, 2005, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=825044

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Ted Gayer

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