Archives for: February 2008

Environmental Valuation & Cost-Benefit News Averages 25,146 Unique Visitors Per Month, Receives 5,707,446 "Hits" in 2007

February 16th, 2008

According to AWSTATS, in 2007 Environmental Valuation & Cost-Benefit News, edited and published by Kenneth Acks of the Cost-Benefit Group, welcomed an average of 25,146 unique visitors per month. During the year these visitors paid a total of 574,740 visits and viewed 1,888,284 pages; 95,637 of the visitors felt that the site was worthy of a bookmark or addition to their list of favorite sites; and 71,069 spent at least 5 minutes on the site. The Hit Count was 5,707,446. The site has achieved top, top five or top fifteen Google Search status for such keywords as cost-benefit, environmental economics, cost-benefit analysis, and cost-benefit green buildings/brownfields/green roofs/environment/environmental, ...Among those linking to the site and its affiliated web portal www.costbenefitanalysis.org have been the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) National Center for Environmental Economics http://yosemite.epa.gov/ee/epa/eed.nsf/webpages/Publications.html and http://yosemite.epa.gov/ee/epalib/eelinks.nsf/e3539284c59a3f548525675a006180b6/59a36469b7f7ac39852568f3006f2acb!OpenDocument; the United National Development Program - Economics Toolkit http://www.undp.org/gef/05/documents/ld/Economics_toolkit_2edition.pdf; the The U.S. EPA’s Guidebook of Financial Tools http://www.epa.gov/efinpage/publications/GFT2008.pdf; Sustainable Development Online via EnviroWindows - the European Environment Agency Platform for Knowledge Sharing and Development, http://sd-online.ewindows.eu.org/Tools/URL_94/index_html?prettyprint=1; the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists http://www.aere.org/resources/research.html; Resources For the Future http://rfflibrary.wordpress.com/; the National Association of Business Economists http://www.nabe.com/publib/links/maclink.htm; the Australian Association of Resource and Environmental Economics http://www.aares.info/links; the Society for Risk Analysis http://sra.org/resources_nonprofit.php; the Kyoto University Graduate School of Economics http://www.econ.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~ueta/link.html; Indian Institute of Sciences; Wikipedia-Cost-benefit analysis; the American Economics Association’s Resources for Economists on the Internet; New Jersey Future; Environmental Economics Blog - Whitehead and Haab; Inomics; the Environmental Health & Safety (EH&S) Management Systems / ISO 14000 Center; Wikipedia-Contingent valuation; A Contract with the Earth; University of California at Santa Barbara Economic and Environmental Sciences Electronics Resources For all hyperlinks go to http://www.cost-benefit.com/LinksLinkers.htm

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Ken Acks, CEO deposed by ExxonMobil in Oil Spill Case

February 15th, 2008

The subjects of this valuation consisted of 91 high-valued homes located within 4,000 feet of the Jacksonville Exxon Gasoline Station at 14258 Jarretsville Pike (MD 145). Over approximately 37 days in January and February 2006 approximately 26,000 gallons of gasoline from the station were discharged below ground representing one of the largest spills in a residential area in U.S. history.

Kenneth Acks, CEO was deposed for a second day by Exxon's lawyers regarding his estimate of property value diminution

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