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The Cost of Air Pollution Abatement—The Case of New Jersey's Motor Vehicle Emissions Inspection Program
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 May 2017
Abstract
New Jersey is the most urbanized state in the nation; correspondingly, it also has the highest motor vehicle density, averaging 467 vehicles per square mile in 1976. In some metropolitan areas of the state, vehicle density may exceed 15,000 vehicles per square mile (New Jersey, Department of Environmental Protection 1976). Motor vehicles are considered responsible for significant emissions of carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons and nitrogen oxides (New Jersey, Department of Environmental Protection 1978). Because of growing concern about these emissions, the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) decided to adopt an in-use motor vehicle exhaust emission testing program; this could be incorporated easily into the already-existing automotive safety inspection program and thus was calculated to be more cost effective than alternative strategies as well as being less disruptive to the state's transportation system (New Jersey).
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- Journal of the Northeastern Agricultural Economics Council , Volume 9 , Issue 2 , October 1980 , pp. 80 - 83
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- Copyright © Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association
Footnotes
Paper of the Journal Series, New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station, Cook College, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08903. This work was performed as a part of NJAES Project No. 02514. Supported by the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station and the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection.