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Policy guidance for identifying and effectively managing perpetual environmental impacts from new hardrock mines

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2010

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Kempton, H., Bloomfield, T.A., Hanson, J.L., and Limerick, P.N., 2010, Policy guidance for identifying and effectively managing perpetual environmental impacts from new hardrock mines: Environmental Science & Policy, v. 13, iss. 6, p. 558-566.

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This article offers a critical review of eight tradable permit markets: water permits at Fox River, Wisconsin; the U.S. leaded gasoline phase-out; sulfur dioxide credits under the U.S. Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990; the Regional Clean Air Incentives Market (RECLAIM) for controlling ozone and acid rain in Southern California; renewable energy credit trading at the regional level in the United States; individual transferrable quotas for fisheries at the national level in New Zealand; carbon credits traded under the European Union-Emissions Trading Scheme; and carbon offsets permitted under the Clean Development Mechanism of the Kyoto Protocol. By "critical" the article does not fully weigh the costs and benefits of each tradable credit [...]

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