Case Study of Municipal Air Pollution Policies: Houston鈥檚 Air Toxic Control Strategy under the White Administration, 2004鈥?009

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• 作者：Rebecca J. Bruhl ; Stephen H. Linder ; Ken Sexton
• 刊名：Environmental Science & Technology (ES&T)
• 出版年：2013
• 出版时间：May 7, 2013
• 年：2013
• 卷：47
• 期：9
• 页码：4022-4028
• 全文大小：287K
• 年卷期：v.47,no.9(May 7, 2013)
• ISSN：1520-5851

文摘

Local government has traditionally played only a minor role in regulating airborne toxic pollutants. However, from 2004 to 2009, the City of Houston implemented a novel, municipality-based air toxics reduction strategy to address what it considered unacceptable health risks and an insufficient regulatory response from state and federal agencies. The city鈥檚 effort to exert local control over stationary sources of air toxics represents a unique opportunity to study the selection and performance of policy tools and to consider their ramifications for the design of future air pollution control strategies. The results of this case study demonstrate the potential for municipal government to use a combination of cooperative and confrontational policies to stimulate responses from private industry and state and federal regulators as part of a strategy to address local air quality problems.