Externalities: Problems and Solutions
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was formed in 1970 to provide public-sector solutions to the problems of ex-ternalities in the environment. Public policy makers employ two types of remedies to resolve the problems associated with negative externalities: 1) price policy: corrective tax or subsidy equal to marginal damage per unit
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