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Air pollution here and there.(Science And Environment)
Steven Hayward and Ryan Stowers, "Air Quality: The U.S. and Europe Compared" Index of Leading Environmental Indicators, Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy and AEI, April 2004 (pacificresearch.org) (aei.org)
Many people assume that the politically liberal European Union has environmental policies that are "more sophisticated and enlightened" than those in the U.S. Steven Hayward, an AEI fellow, and research assistant Ryan Stowers put this theory to the test. Their results suggest that the U.S. and E.U. have very similar regimes when it comes to dealing with air pollution.
Though both the U.S. and E.U. have made progress reducing air pollution, a direct comparison of the two is difficult: The U.S. and E.U. use different measures to monitor pollutants, and, on the ...
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