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 …

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 …

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

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 …

This paper explores the empirical effects of decentralization on environmental quality by studying water pollution in … rivers around the world. It examines the level of pollution and variation in pollution across jurisdictions within a country …, for both a local and a regional pollutant. Federal countries exhibit greater interjurisdictional variation in pollution …

pollution are low. In this case RJVs fully share information and internalize the associated externality. However when the level …

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

are borne by downstream neighbors. This paper exploits a natural experiment set in China in which the central government … changed the local political promotion criteria and hence incentivized local officials to reduce border pollution along … specific criteria. Using a difference in difference approach, we document evidence of pollution progress with respect to …