growing distributional concern that market forces could increase the pollution exposure gap between disadvantaged and other … communities by spatially reallocating pollution. We estimate how this "environmental justice gap" changed following the 2013 … critiques. Embedding a pollution transport model within a program evaluation framework, we find that while the EJ gap was …

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 …

experience, affect local environmental performance in China. Firms located in cities with EIPs have lower levels of sulfur …

, 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 …