Access the Document Prepared by the U

question 7

Essay

Access the document prepared by the U.S. Census Bureau, Pollution Abatement Costs and Expenditures: 2005, available online at www.census.gov/prod/2008pubs/ma200-05.pdf. Examine the state-level data for total capital and operating abatement costs. Analyze the differences among any subset of states, and offer a hypothesis as to why these differences might exist.

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