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Coal Mining Employment Impacts from Acid Rain Controls

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 May 2017

Jill L. Findeis  and
James S. Shortle
Jill L. Findeis
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, The Pennsylvania State University
James S. Shortle
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, The Pennsylvania State University
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Abstract

The U.S. Senate Committee on the Environment and Public Works is considering legislative proposals to reduce emissions of long-range transport air pollutants which may be a major factor in acid depostion. Preliminary results indicate that these proposals will have substantial impacts on coal production and employment in northern Appalachia, a region with long-standing structural unemployment problems.

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Journal of the Northeastern Agricultural Economics Council , Volume 12 , Issue 2 , Fall 1983 , pp. 53 - 58
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Copyright © Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association 

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