Regulatory processes: Legal and institutional barriers

This paper addresses supplementing pollution regulation with pollution taxes or fees to reflect the damages to society inflicted by pollution resources. The topics addressed include the significance of utility consideration of environmental externality costs, reasons that utilities should incorporate environmental costs, the magnitude of environmental costs for fossil-fueled power plants, nuclear power plants, waste to energy plants, and solar, wind, and biomass powered plants, the extent of federal incorporation of environmental externalities, the extent of utility and regulatory commission incorporation of environmental externalities, and barriers to incorporation