exists an evident heterogeneous effect across industries with different pollution intensities. Stricter environmental …

, fuel economy standards for automobiles, renewable portfolio standards, low carbon fuel standards, and—most recently—China … substantial gains could arise from shifting two programs, China’s new national carbon market (~60% gain) and the California Low …

environmental benefits: regulators can force firms to install pollution abatement equipment, but cannot ensure that they use it. We …

annual Census Bureau information on 116 pulp and paper mills' vintage, technology, productivity, and pollution abatement … operating costs for 1979-1990. We find a significant negative relationship between pollution abatement costs and productivity … include our technology, vintage, and renovation variables. Sample calculations of the impact of pollution abatement on …

For political, jurisdictional and technical reasons, environmental regulation of industrial pollution is often … incomplete: regulations apply to only a subset of facilities contributing to a pollution problem. Policymakers are increasingly …

a substantial reduction in U.S. pollution from 1978-94 due entirely to a shift in the composition of U.S. manufacturing ….S. manufacturing, has also occurred among U.S. imports. Second, we find no evidence that pollution-intensive industries have been …

Between 1990 and 2008, air pollution emissions from U.S. manufacturing fell by 60 percent despite a substantial … suggest that the implicit pollution tax that manufacturers face doubled between 1990 and 2008. These changes in environmental …

The economic costs of environmental regulations have been widely debated since the U.S. began to restrict pollution …