100 top toxic air polluters in USA Michael Ash: The EPA needs more regulation, not just "inform the public"
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Michael Ash (Ph.D., Economics, UC-Berkeley 1999) is associate professor of economics and public policy at UMass Amherst. His areas of expertise are labor, health, and environmental economics, examined primarily through quantitative models. Ash’s main interests in environmental policy include disclosure and right-to-know laws, greenhouse-gas policy, and environmental justice. At UMass, Ash co-directs the Corporate Toxics Information Project of the Political Economy Research Institute, which publishes the Toxic 100, an index that identifies the top U.S. toxic polluters among the world’s largest corporations. Ash served as staff labor economist for the Council of Economic Advisers (Washington, DC) in 1995-1996 and as Princeton Project 55 Fellow for the Trenton Office of Policy Studies (Trenton, NJ) in 1991-1992.
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artemis6
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EPA has been gutted over the years . They need some teeth back .
- 1 year ago
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artemis6
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AsiaSuperLoop
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Interesting post.
It's obvious that the Department of Energy could be doing a better job of packaging information disclosures on carbon and non-carbon emissions levels across the country.
It's probably generally true that many types of information could be packaged and presented more dramatically in order to ensure that knowledge has a fair chance of evolving into action. For instance, a wonderful speech given by a mumbler isn't likely to grab too many hearts and minds. Especially if the message was supposed to be about the emissions of neurotoxins, I'd like that message to be delivered as clearly and dramatically as possible in order to get on with the job of running away, hopefully with a head start.
Michael Ash makes the point that exposure to pollutants is negatively correlated with race and class. However, that's just in America. I think perhaps the larger issue is that the entire world has "exported" pollutants to China, India and a number of mostly Asian countries because Asia is the OEM manufacturer to the world for everything from toothpicks to the iphone 4.
Is that the way it was supposed to work? Industrialized countries export pollutants, reducing pollutant levels domestically, but then also support CDM offsets from the developing world that further lower the cost of complying with environmental regulations.
Wow. That, my friends, is a clever idea. Too clever.
- 1 year ago
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AsiaSuperLoop
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treewolf39
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AsiaSuperLoop:
When are we going to consider China industrialized?
- 1 year ago
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treewolf39
