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, and reduced corporate pollution among firms that (a) release the specific chemicals covered by Apex and (b) are close to … suggest that creditors rapidly responded to Apex and successfully induced firms to reduce pollution …
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builds a framework to detect whether local governments skip air pollution monitoring when they expect air quality to … deteriorate. We infer this expectation from air quality alerts - public advisories based on local governments' own pollution … individual pollution monitor in Jersey City, NJ, suspected of a deliberate shutdown during the 2013 "Bridgegate" traffic jam …
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those plants, relative to areas slightly farther away. The case provides a salient example of a pollution-haven effect …
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This article proposes and evaluates four hypotheses about US pollution and environmental policy over the last half … century. First, air and water pollution have declined substantially, although greenhouse gas emissions have not. Second …, environmental policy explains a large share of these trends. Third, much of the regulation of air and drinking water pollution has …
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Using a unique combination of datasets and estimation techniques, we test whether private lease negotiations to extract oil and natural gas exhibit features of Coasian efficiency. We demonstrate that measures of wealth (including income, house square footage, and land acreage), typically...
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expenses incurred to satisfy these regulations, such as investment in pollution abatement capital, is unproductive in terms of … paper we construct a model which explicitly recognizes the difference between pollution abatement capital and "productive … and Germany, and thereby assess the impact of increased pollution abatement capital regulation on productivity growth. Our …
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We compare the spatial distribution of emissions from Southern California's pollution-trading program with that of a …
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This paper estimates an augmented measure of national output inclusive of environmental pollution damage in the United … States economy over a 60-year period. The paper reports two primary findings. First, air pollution intensity declined … precipitously from the 1950s to the modern era. Air pollution damage comprised roughly 30 percent of output in the post WWII economy …
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