Air Pollution and the Siting of Fossil Fuel Power Plants
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The decision to locate a fossil-fueled electrical power plant on a particular site involves trade-offs among the costs of: (1) land acquisition, (2) plant construction, operation, and maintenance, (3) power transmission, and (4) air pollution damage to humans, animals, plants and materials. The fourth of these, pollution costs, has been of great concern in recent years. But seldom, if ever, are the specific dollar trade-offs between the environmental and the other costs associated with site sel…
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Date:
1976
Creator:
Fishelson, Gideon; Rausser, Gordon C. & Cohen, Alan S.
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