Nicholas Z Muller

Biographic Data

ID5766670
NAMENicholas Z Muller
GIVEN NAMESNicholas Z
FAMILY NAMEMuller
SIGNATUREMULLER N Z
AFFILIATIONSMiddlebury College
ORCID0000-0003-1712-6526
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS12
TOTAL CITATIONS1
AUTHOR COUNT12
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2011
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX1

  • Funding a Just Transition Away from Coal in the U.S. Considering Avoided Damage from Air Pollution

    Open AccessLuke R Dennin, Nicholas Z MullerARTICLEJournal of Benefit-Cost Analysis2024References: 8

    Coal is declining in the U.S. as part of the clean energy transition, resulting in remarkable air pollution benefits for the American public and significant costs for the industry. Using the AP3 integrated assessment model, we estimate that fewer emissions of sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, and primary fine particulate matter driven by coal’s decline led to $300 billion in benefits from 2014 to 2019. Conversely, we find that job losses driven by…

  • Regional and county flows of particulate matter damage in the US

    Open AccessBrian Sergi, Inês L Azevedo et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2020

    Despite several decades of declining emissions, the health costs of particulate matter (PM 2.5 ) in the US remain substantial, with more than $1 trillion in annual damages. We analyze the inter-county impacts of PM 2.5 for 2008, 2011, and 2014 and find that even though emissions from point sources have fallen over this period, the share of PM 2.5 attributable to pollution transported across county and state boundaries is still considerable in man…

  • Inequity in consumption of goods and services adds to racial–ethnic disparities in air pollution exposure

    Open AccessChristopher W Tessum, Joshua S Apte et al.ARTICLEProceedings of the National…2019

    Fine particulate matter (PM 2.5 ) air pollution exposure is the largest environmental health risk factor in the United States. Here, we link PM 2.5 exposure to the human activities responsible for PM 2.5 pollution. We use these results to explore “pollution inequity”: the difference between the environmental health damage caused by a racial–ethnic group and the damage that group experiences. We show that, in the United States, PM 2.5 exposure is …

  • Quantifying the social equity state of an energy system: Environmental and labor market equity of the shale gas boom in Appalachia

    Open AccessErin Mayfield, Jared L Cohon et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2019

    A fundamental societal concern in energy system transitions is the distribution of benefits and costs across populations. A recent transition, the US shale gas boom, has dramatically altered the domestic energy outlook and global markets; however, the social equity implications have not been meaningfully assessed and accounted for in public and private decision making. In this study, we develop and demonstrate a systematic approach to quantify th…

  • An inter-comparison of the social costs of air quality from reduced-complexity models

    Open AccessE A Gilmore, Jinhyok Heo et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2019

    Reliable estimates of externality costs—such as the costs arising from premature mortality due to exposure to fine particulate matter (PM 2.5 )—are critical for policy analysis. To facilitate broader analysis, several datasets of the social costs of air quality have been produced by a set of reduced-complexity models (RCMs). It is much easier to use the tabulated marginal costs derived from RCMs than it is to run ‘state-of-the-science’ chemical t…

  • Cumulative environmental and employment impacts of the shale gas boom

    Open AccessErin Mayfield, Jared L Cohon et al.ARTICLENature Sustainability2019References: 3

  • Environmental Accounting

    Open AccessNicholas Z MullerOTHEREmerging Trends in the Social and…2017

    While metrics such as gross domestic product (GDP) constitute important means to gauge the value of production, it is widely recognized that indices that focus exclusively on market production are incomplete. Omitted environmental assets include (i) those that have the capacity to act as a source of valuable inputs to production such as timber, subsurface minerals, or fisheries; and (ii) media that serve as a sink for anthropogenic residuals such…

  • Environmental Benefit-Cost Analysis and the National Accounts

    Open AccessNicholas Z MullerARTICLEJournal of Benefit-Cost Analysis2017References: 3

    This paper demonstrates a new connection between benefit-cost analysis (BCA) and the national income and product accounts. The article computes an augmented measure of output, which is defined as gross domestic product (GDP) less environmental pollution damage. Environmental policy BCA is incorporated directly into the adjusted measure of output in two ways. In a particular time period, damages from pollution emissions are deducted from market GD…

  • On the divergence between fuel and service prices: The importance of technological change and diffusion in an American frontier economy

    Open AccessNicholas Z MullerARTICLEExplorations in Economic History2016References: 7

  • Simultaneously Mitigating Near-Term Climate Change and Improving Human Health and Food Security

    Open AccessDrew Shindell, Johan C I Kuylenstierna et al.ARTICLEScience2012

    Why Wait? Tropospheric ozone can be dangerous to human health, can be harmful to vegetation, and is a major contributor to climate warming. Black carbon also has significant negative effects on health and air quality and causes warming of the atmosphere. Shindell et al. (p. 183 ) present results of an analysis of emissions, atmospheric processes, and impacts for each of these pollutants. Seven measures were identified that, if rapidly implemented…

  • Environmental Accounting for Pollution in the United States Economy

    Nicholas Z Muller, Rebecca Mendelsohn et al.ARTICLEAmerican Economic Review2011

    This study presents a framework to include environmental externalities into a system of national accounts. The paper estimates the air pollution damages for each industry in the United States. An integrated-assessment model quantifies the marginal damages of air pollution emissions for the US which are multiplied times the quantity of emissions by industry to compute gross damages. Solid waste combustion, sewage treatment, stone quarrying, marina…

  • The social cost of trading: Measuring the increased damages from sulfur dioxide trading in the United States

    Open AccessDavid D Henry, David Henry et al.ARTICLEJournal of Policy Analysis and…2011Cited by: 1

    The sulfur dioxide (SO 2 ) cap and trade program established in the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments is celebrated for reducing abatement costs ($0.7 to $2.1 billion per year) by allowing emissions allowances to be traded. Unfortunately, places with high marginal costs also tend to have high marginal damages. Ton‐for‐ton trading reduces emissions in low damage areas (rural) while increasing emissions in high damage areas (cities). From 2000 to 2007,…