Fears that globalization necessarily hurts the environment are not well-founded. A survey reveals little statistical … measures of air pollution such as SO2 concentrations. Perceptions that WTO panel rulings have interfered with the ability of …

This paper reviews arguments and evidence on the impact of globalization on the environment, then presents evidence on …

depletion? How does globalization affect air and water pollution? Do trade and investment create a race to the bottom in …

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 …

can establish the overall pollution-reduction goal for a cap-and-trade system by setting the cap, and leave it up to the …

the country level with data on pollution intensity at the industry level to show that countries with laxer environmental …. We propose an instrument for environmental regulation based on meteorological determinants of pollution dispersion identi …...ed by the atmospheric pollution literature. We find that the effect of environmental regulation on the pattern of trade is …

pollution. This article describes the recent trends in air and water quality, with a focus on the five years since China …The decade from 2010 to 2019 marked a significant turning point in China's history of environmental regulation and … declared a "war on pollution" in 2014. It summarizes the emerging literature that has taken advantage of accompanying …

China's environmental regulators have sought to reduce the Yangtze River's water pollution. We document that this …, the regulation has focused on reducing one dimension of water pollution called chemical oxygen demand (COD). Thus, local …

China's extremely high levels of urban air, water and greenhouse gas emissions levels pose local and global … environmental challenges. China's urban leaders have substantial influence and discretion over the evolution of economic activity … pollution issues. Based on a principal-agent framework, we present evidence consistent with the hypothesis that both the central …