, 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 …

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 …

those plants, relative to areas slightly farther away. The case provides a salient example of a pollution-haven effect …

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 …

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 …

We compare the spatial distribution of emissions from Southern California's pollution-trading program with that of a …

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 …