Dirty Dealing

September 29, 2005

Efforts to improve environmental quality have spawned a surprising commodity: pollution. Emissions trading enables entities that produce a lot of pollution to meet emissions targets by buying credits from those that produce less. USU economist Arthur Caplan is working on an EPA-funded project to determine the feasibility of water quality trading in the Bear River Basin.

For more information, contact Arthur Caplan, associate professor, Department of Economics, Colleges of Agriculture and Business, Utah State University, 435-797-0775. Dr. Caplan presents "Pollution Trading" at the Water in the West: Use, Abuse and Scarcity symposium Oct. 12 in USU's Taggart Student Center auditorium. For symposium information, call 435-797-2452.

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