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Climate change is the mother of all negative externalities. The problem is measuring it: How do you calculate the cost of climate change and then apportion it fairly among the world's businesses

This article is about fishermen getting arrested for poaching 10-tons of rockfish. This is a form of negative externality as the fishermen has depleted the stocks available for other fishermen/firms and has somewhat harmed the environment by overfishing and keeping all these fish.

This article talks about the effects of the red sludge in Hungary, which could be considered a negative externality of the aluminum plant.

it is about the oil spill.

There is a cap-and-trade system California wants to put in place. Poorer neighborhoods are worried it wont cut back on pollution.

This article talks about a tax imposed on soda in Colorado, that was an attempt to limit soda consumption and reverse some of the obesity problems it caused -- a negative externality of the soda industry.

This article is about the effects of garbage dumping which is made by Israelis and it worries Palestinians.

This article is about Honduras banning smoking in many public places but haven't completely banned smoking in people's homes. This is a solution to a negative externality as it bans smoking (decreases the effect of passive smoking and litters). However the police has a hard time keeping up with all the 'crime'.