CONTROLLING POLLUTION OF THE MARINE ENVIRONMENT: AN ECONOMIC ANALYSIS
Although federal legislation restricts the discharge of oil and other hazardous substances into inland and coastal waterways, debate continues over the best choice of institutional arrangements to control waterway pollution through regulations, standards, penalties and cleanup charges. No one approach is necessarily best in all situations. Issues addressed when determining public policy must be concerned with the tradeoff between methods chosen to influence polluter behaviour and cost of their enforcement. Using data from the U.S. Coast Guard's Pollution Incident Reporting System (PIRS) and the Port Safety and Security/Marine Environmental Protection Quarterly Activities Report, this paper examines a model describing the behaviour of polluters in response to pollution control costs and, in so doing, stresses the potential economic impact. Implications for public policy also are presented.
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Supplemental Notes:
- Proceedings of the 1977 Oil Spill Conference, March 8-10, 1977, New Orleans, Louisiana. Sponsored by American Petroleum Institute, Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Coast Guard.
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Corporate Authors:
American Petroleum Institute
1220 L Street, NW
Washington, DC United States 20005-4070 -
Authors:
- Epple, D
- Visscher, M
- Wallace, W A
- Wilkinson, J W
- Conference:
- Publication Date: 1977-3
Media Info
- Features: References;
- Pagination: p. 31-34
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Economic analysis; Oil spill cleanup; Pollution control; Regulation; Water quality management
- Uncontrolled Terms: Pollution abatement
- Old TRIS Terms: Water pollution regulation
- Subject Areas: Economics; Environment; Marine Transportation;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00152029
- Record Type: Publication
- Source Agency: American Petroleum Institute
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: Apr 27 1977 12:00AM