Shouldn't Trafficking in Pollution be an Option for All?
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| Excerpt from "Closing Will free up emission 'credits' " by ANDREW MELNYKOVYCH Monday March 1st 1999 |
"If there is good news in the closing of the Phillip Morris cigarette
plant in Louisville, it is that in the short term, it will mean cleaner air. That's because Phillip Morris is one of Jefferson County's largest sources of smog-forming pollution. In the longer term, the plant closing could help efforts to attract new industry, expand existing plants or even give owners of new cars a break from vehicle emissions testing." |
| Richard Lewis makes an offer to purchase
sufficient pollution credits from Phillip Morris to offset his 1988 Ford Ranger's
failure to pass the Jefferson County Vehicle Emissions
Test. March 9, 1999 Annual Emissions and Fuel Consumption for an Average Vehicle |
When our United States Constitution was adopted on
March 4, 1789 it's guarantees applied only to U.S. Citizens "living beings"
guarantees did not apply to corporations. It was not until 1886, ninety-seven years after the U.S. Constitution was adopted that the Supreme Court decreed, without hearing arguments, that "corporations" would have the same rights as a person. see pgs.347-359 Who Will Tell The People by William Greider paperback 1992 Corporations were granted the same rights and not superior rights. American Law is classles: equal and for all. |
| Tradable CO2 Emissions Permits Problems with the Perfect
Solution by Barbara Rippel, policy analyst A study prepared for the National Consumer Coalition |
4. Domestic Distribution After the
decision has been made about the level of emissions, the next step is to decide how the
permits or allowances should be allocated among companies. Initially it must be
established which companies should be involved in the trading scheme. The inclusion of
primary energy producers and primary energy importers would seem to be a more practical
way rather than including all companies that emit CO2 or even individual households. Although it seems impossible to include consumers in a permit system, it
appears the idea is not totally dismissed, at least in theoretical discussions in the
Administration, according to a report of the Electricity Daily, November 14, 1997.(7) Since the number of companies that emit CO2 is extremely high --not to mention the number of households-- their inclusion would make monitoring impossible. Also energy rationing does not seem particularly popular with voters in industrial countries and elsewhere. |
| Accelerated Vehicle Retirement Programs Can Improve Air Quality | Chevron Corporation. In Southern California, Chevron Corporation is purchasing and dismantling 4,200 pre-1975 model-year cars under California's Rule 1610, which awards mobile source emissions credits to stationary source polluters that operate scrapping programs. Chevron plans to use the credits to forestall required installation of vapor-recovery technology at one of its off-shore oil terminals. [ 266 ] |
Hypocrisy and Seconhand Smoke |
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| Environmental Tobacco
SmokeEPA's Report Environmental Tobacco Smoke: EPA's Report by Carol M. Browner |
Environmental tobacco smoke (ETS), also termed secondhand
smoke, harms the health of thousands of Americans each year. ETS is a mixture of the smoke
given off by the burning end of cigarettes, pipes, or cigars, and the smoke exhaled from
the lungs of smokers. This mixture contains over 4,000 substances. More than 40 of these
are known to cause cancer in humans and animals, and many are strong respiratory
irritants. Exposure to secondhand smoke, called involuntary smoking or passive smoking, is concentrated indoors, where ETS is often the most significant pollutant. Indoor levels of the particles you may inhale (the "tars" in the cigarettes) from ETS often exceed the national air quality standard established by EPA for outdoor air. The high levels of carbon monoxide in secondhand smoke also warrant concern. |
| Ontario Hydro earns half a million on sale of pollution credit | TORONTO (CP) _ Ontario Hydro earned
nearly $500,000 by selling pollution reduction credits to a Connecticut company that
needed them to satisfy state regulatory orders to improve air quality. Trading of emission credits allows pollution cuts achieved by one company to be purchased by another to help comply with state environmental requirements. The practice is attractive for many companies because it allows pollution cuts to be achieved at lower costs than by having each individual company cut emissions from its own facilities. |
| asmok HCMA takes part in anti-smoking coalition |
As part of the statewide
coalition MATCH (Mobilize Against Tobacco for Children’s Health), the Hartford County
Medical Association, along with 44 Connecticut organizations
committed to anti-smoking efforts, is sponsoring a program called
"Healthy Homes," designed to educate residents
about the dangers of second-hand smoke and to urge people to make their homes smoke-free. "With every study, we are learning more and more about the dangers of second-hand smoke," said Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, a member of the coalition. "Even if you don’t buy a pack of cigarettes or smoke a cigarette, you are affected if you are exposed to second-hand smoke." |
| NCPA - Environmental Issues | Would
Emissions Trading Lower Costs Of Kyoto Agreement?
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| Pollution charges | 'Pricing for Pollution', by Wilfred Beckerman (second
edition published as Hobart Paper 66, by the Institute of Economic Affairs, 2 Lord North
Street, London SW1P 3LB, tel 071 799 3745; fax 071 799 2137, L4-95 plus 50p p&p). Dr
Wilfred Beckerman of Balliol College, Oxford, has argued in print since 1956 that
pollution is better controlled by charging for it through pollution taxes or marketable
'rights to pollute' than by regulating it. He notes that the world's politicians are
beginning to catch up with him, giving the example of Sweden, where the use of pollution
charges is most advanced, and the States, where Bush introduced a programme of 'emission
reduction credits',with a market in such rights, to combat air pollution. |
| Note these are two separate links. The AirBank Excerpt to the right is from Press Release |
February 10, 1997
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