The Effects of Fuel Prices, Environmental Regulations, and Other Factors on U.S. Coal Production, 2008-2016

Coglianese, John; Gerarden, Todd; Stock, James H.

doi:10.5547/01956574.41.1.jcog

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“…It has been replaced by technologies that emit less pollution—mostly natural gas but also wind and other renewables. Multiple government policies have targeted emissions from electric power plants, but the main driver of this move away from coal has been the declining price of natural gas due to hydraulic fracturing (fracking), which dramatically lowered the cost of natural gas extraction (Coglianese, Gerarden, and Stock 2017; Fell and Kaffine 2018). In addition, emissions from the remaining coal‐fired power plants declined substantially over the same period due to adoption of abatement technology (Fowlie 2010).…”

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Productivity Spillovers From Pollution Reduction: Reducing Coal Use Increases Crop Yields

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Smith

2019

American J Agri Economics

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Air pollution reduces crop yields by slowing down photosynthesis. We estimate the increase in US corn and soybean yields attributed to the recent dramatic reductions in emissions of nitrogen oxides (NO x ) from electric power plants. In response to the observed changes in power plant NO x emissions over the eight-year period from 2003-05 to 2011-13, we estimate that average corn yields improved by 2.46% and soybean yields by 1.62%. These improvements imply an increase in total surplus of $1.60 billion annually across the two crops. The estimated yield improvements vary substantially across states depending on the change in NO x emissions. For corn, they range from 0.32% to 6.87% and for soybeans, they range from 0.21% to 4.30%. The demand for the two crops is quite inelastic, which means that prices decrease by more than production increases in response to this positive productivity shock and the implied rightward shift of the crop supply curve. Due to the low elasticities of supply and demand for U.S. corn and soybeans, we conclude from a welfare analysis that these changes made consumers better off and farmers worse off.

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Productivity Spillovers From Pollution Reduction: Reducing Coal Use Increases Crop Yields

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Smith

2019

American J Agri Economics

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“…4 Many studies have analysed the decline of the U.S. coal sector (e.g. Coglianese, Gerarden, & Stock, 2017;Culver & Hong, 2016;Houser, Bordoff, & Marsters, 2017;Kok, 2017;Schlissel, Sanzillo, & Feaster, 2018;Sussams & Grant, 2015;U.S. DoE, 2017).…”

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The death spiral of coal in the U.S.: will changes in U.S. Policy turn the tide?

2019

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“…10 Many studies have analysed the recent decline of the U.S. coal sector (i.a. Coglianese, Gerarden, and Stock 2017;Culver and Hong 2016;Houser, Bordoff, and Marsters 2017;Kok 2017;Schlissel, Sanzillo, and Feaster 2018;Sussams and Grant 2015;U.S. DoE 2017).…”

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The Death Spiral of Coal in the USA: Will New U.S. Energy Policy Change the Tide?

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Holz

2019

SSRN Journal

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. AbstractThe Trump administration has promised to stop the spiraling down of the U.S. coal industry that has been going on for several years. We discuss the origins of the decline of the U.S. coal industry and new policy interventions by the Trump administration. We find that a further decrease of coal consumption in the U.

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The Effects of Fuel Prices, Environmental Regulations, and Other Factors on U.S. Coal Production, 2008-2016

Cited by 45 publications

References 9 publications

Productivity Spillovers From Pollution Reduction: Reducing Coal Use Increases Crop Yields

Productivity Spillovers From Pollution Reduction: Reducing Coal Use Increases Crop Yields

The death spiral of coal in the U.S.: will changes in U.S. Policy turn the tide?

The Death Spiral of Coal in the USA: Will New U.S. Energy Policy Change the Tide?

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