Reddit mentions of Environmental Policy: New Directions for the Twenty-First Century

The only reason your company can exist is because of an enormous amount of market manipulation by the government, the exact market manipulation you and Gary Johnson are against. I promise you, without it, you would be out of a job. Technologies like solar, wind, and hydrogen fuel cells suffer from massive start-up costs and would never be able to compete with fossil fuels which benefit form massive economies of scale. The free market got us into this mess because the free market, while it is good for lots of things, is terrible at discounting for the future costs of pollution, a lot of the problem being that it's so damn hard to know what those costs will be. The free market is why Lake Erie died. The free market is why Centralia, PA is completely uninhabitable. The free market is why people's water all over Pennsylvania is now flammable. The free market is why the ecosystem of the Gulf of Mexico is now crippled and will be for decades.

I have a Masters of Economics, my focus was Environmental Econ, and I'm working on my PhD in Envi Econ now. This is my life. I eat, breathe, and sleep environmental economics.

Here's some good reading on the subject:

Public Policies for Environmental Protection, Portney and Stavins (2000)

The Wealth of Nature: Economics as if Survival Mattered, Greer (2011)

Environmental Policy: New Directions for the Twenty-first Century, Vig and Craft (2009)

The Environmental Case: Translating Values Into Policy, Layzer (2011)

And a couple blogs that I like:

env-econ.net

greeneconomics.blogspot.com