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 …

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 …

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 …

, species extinction and industrial pollution were rising. Recently it has been intensified by the creation of the World Trade …