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Chapter 7: Pollution Control Instruments
Pollution control/abatement costs and expenditures in the USA
The material below has been taken from a message posted to the RESECON mailing list by Gernot Wagner. His message began with:
"Thank you to everybody who responded to my query about U.S. environmental
protection expenditures! It seems that the Pollution Abatement Costs and
Expenditures (PACE) survey is the most comprehensive source for these data.
Here's a complete list of responses."
The following are (slightly edited) extractions from the
text of Gernot's message. E mail addresses refer to the individuals who responded
to Gernot's initial request for information:
1.[From: glenn-marie lange <gml1@MAIL.nyu.edu>] "The EPA regularly
compiled these accounts from the 1970s until the mid-1990s. You can contact
Carl Pasurka at EPA for information about how to get more iformation: pasurka.carl@epa.gov.
There is a similar series, although not for as long a time period, for many
European countries, compiled by Eurostat and available from their website.
2. [From: Clark.Matthew@epamail.epa.gov] Direct Government Expenditures, from
OMB's web page for 2004: http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/fy2004/epa.html
Off-budget Costs, again from OMB - not particularly accurate, for 2003: http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/fedreg/2003draft_cost-benefit_rpt.pdf
3. [From Maguire.Kelly@epamail.epa.gov].The Pollution Abatement Costs and Expenditures
(PACE) survey, published by the Census Bureau, is one source of information.
The survey provides estimates of pollution abatement costs by media for manufacturing
facilities in the US. It does not provide estimates for costs paid by the government
(or service or agriculture) sectors. The survey was conducted annually by Census
from 1974 to 1994. EPA (under mostly my direction) funded the collection of
the 1999 data and we are working on a new survey, likely to be administered
in 2004. I'd be happy to answer any questions for you. The 1999 survey can be
found here: http://www.census.gov/prod/2002pubs/ma200-99.pdf
In 1990 EPA also published a report titled "Environmental Incentives:
The Cost of a Clean Environment," also referred to as the "Cost of
Clean
Report." A summary is available here, with instructions on how to order
the full report:
http://yosemite.epa.gov/ee/epa/eermfile.nsf/vwAN/EE-0294A-1.pdf/$file/EE-0294A-1.pdf
This report is a more comprehensive look at overall spending on environmental protection, but it is dated.
4. [From: "David Tomberlin" <David.Tomberlin@noaa.gov>]
Our lab in Santa Cruz has been putting together an inventory of government expenditures
on salmon habitat restoration in California, which are running
something more than $100 million p.a., and are no doubt much more if you consider
the value of volunteer efforts, costs of regulatory burden to
landowners (primarily ag and timber), costs to fishermen of reduced catch, etc
etc. It's a small piece of the picture you're asking about, but if you
want more info you could contact Cindy Thomson (cindy.thomson@noaa.gov).
5. [From: Eads.Mark@epamail.epa.gov]
http://yosemite.epa.gov/ee/epa/eermfile.nsf/vwAN/EE-0294B-2.pdf/$file/EE-0294B-2.pdf
http://www.census.gov/prod/2002pubs/ma200-99.pdf
http://www.census.gov/prod/2/manmin/ma200x94.pdf
http://www.census.gov/econ/www/mu1100.html
http://landview.census.gov/econ/www/ip3100.html
http://yosemite.epa.gov/water/owrccatalog.nsf/0/6f954be471fc67bd85256b0600723365?OpenDocument
http://www.rff.org/proj_summaries/files/harrington_clean_enviro.htm
