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Environmental regulation
Rules limiting pollution, mandating disclosure, or protecting ecosystems—often justified by externalities markets do not price on their own.
Cap-and-trade, performance standards, and technology mandates each embed different incentive structures. Debates pit growth against stewardship; empirical work tracks health co-benefits and employment in clean-energy supply chains.
Cost-benefit interface
Major environmental rules are scored and litigated using the same analytic toolkit as safety regulation—linking this term tightly to cost-benefit topic pages.