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Vehicle Emissions, Urban Smog, and Clean Air Policy

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The Environment of Oil

Part of the book series: Studies in Industrial Organization ((SIOR,volume 17))

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Currently, some 96 mostly urban areas violate the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for ozone and 41 violate the standard for carbon monoxide (CO) (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 1991a). If U.S. cities are to meet these standards, major reductions in emissions of CO and the ozone precursors—nitrogen oxides (NOX) and reactive volatile organic compounds (VOCs)1—will be necessary. As gasoline vehicles (GVs) contribute most of the CO emissions and a large share of VOCs and NOX, reductions in their emissions must be a component of strategies to attain the ambient standards.

Alan J. Krupnick is a Senior Fellow with Resources for the Future, Quality of the Environment Division. The author would like to acknowledge the helpful comments of Richard Gilbert and Daniel Sperling on earlier versions of this paper.

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Krupnick, A.J. (1993). Vehicle Emissions, Urban Smog, and Clean Air Policy. In: Gilbert, R.J. (eds) The Environment of Oil. Studies in Industrial Organization, vol 17. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2174-3_5

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