Document Type
Dissertation
Date of Award
1977
Keywords
Electric power-plants, Environmental aspects, Environmental engineering
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Department
Economics
First Advisor
V. Kerry Smith
Second Advisor
Thomas G. Cowing
Third Advisor
Alphonse G. Holtmann
Abstract
Environmental quality has in the past decade been an increasingly important public policy issue. Individual citizens have demanded that policy makers - at both federal and local levels - encourage the provision of cleaner air and safer water. As a result, environmental legislation related to water and air pollution has set up agencies to supervise and control residual emission levels. These pollution control regulations seem to have had an important impact on the private sector. According to the U. S. Department of Commerce, capital expenditures for air and water pollution control totalled $7.7 billion in 1975; and it has been predicted that another $258 billion will be spent during the period from 1975 through 1984.
Recommended Citation
Bich, Tran Thi, "An econometric analysis of the role of air and water residuals in the production technology for steam-generating electric plants" (1977). Graduate Dissertations and Theses. 353.
https://orb.binghamton.edu/dissertation_and_theses/353