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Home » Pollution control cost $25.8 billion in 1999
The U.S. manufacturing, mining and electric utility industries spent a total of $23 billion on pollution abatement, waste disposal and materials recycling in 1999, according to EPA's recently released 1999 Pollution Abatement Costs and Expenditures (PACE) data.
Capital expenditures on pollution abatement totaled $6.2 billion, associated operating costs reached $16.8 billion, and pollution prevention expenditures totaled $2.8 billion.
The PACE survey is available at http://www.census.gov/prod/2002pubs/ma200-99.pdf.
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