米国NO_X排出削減計画に関する研究

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The OTC NONO_X Budget Program was established by 9 states and one District in the northeast and mid-Atlantic region of America, to reduce NONO_X emission from large combustion facilities during the ozone season (from May 1st through September 30th). The NONO_X Budget Program is a cap-and-trade program, which harnesses free market forces to reduce NONO_X concentrations in the air, being similar to the U.S.EPA's SO_2 emission-trading program. However, the NONO_X allowance trading system, a economic instrument, seemed to have little effects on NONO_X emission reductions from the facilities, because the NONO_X Budget Program (1999-2002) was accompanied by Reasonably Available Control Technology (RACT) requirements of the Clean Air Act (CAA), and also NONO_X emission regulations under the Acid Rain Program of CAA, before and after. From the study of NONO_X allowance transactions in the 15 farms which emitted the largest amounts of NONO_X, it was shown that a large number of NONO_X allowance transactions were between parent-companies and their units, or among the related units. That might indicate that big farms tended to manage the allowances allocated to their units within each company, and not to take so much advantage of market trading system.
兵庫県立大学の論文
2005-02-28