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 …

Using the most comprehensive data file ever compiled on air pollution, water pollution, environmental regulations, and … air pollution regulations were effective at reducing ambient concentrations of particulate matter, sulfur dioxide, and … nitrogen dioxide. The most successful air pollution regulation is associated with a modest and statistically insignificant …

small, for two reasons. First, services account for only a small fraction of overall pollution. For none of five major air … relation to the environment, because services in general contribute relatively little to overall pollution, and those …

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 …

related to air, water, and land pollution. One environmental area that has received attention is water pollution from human … and air pollution and then turns to the energy and environmental literatures in economic history. The conclusion offers …

Orcinus Orca is the world's largest predator, and simultaneously a significant tourist asset and cultural icon for much … novel data, an innovative noise pollution model, and quasi-experimental methods borrowed from environmental economics to … solve this puzzle. We find consistent evidence that vessel noise pollution from international shipping has lowered fertility …

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 …

We study the relationship between water nutrient pollution and U.S. agriculture using data between the early 1970s and …

, surprisingly, procyclical in the developing world. We track the source of this puzzling procyclical behavior to (i) the effective …