We leverage the timing of coalmine accidents to examine the effect of coal mining on air pollution. Safety regulations … mandate that coal mining be suspended if a mine experiences an accident with 10 or more fatalities. We use a stacked … pollution data at the county-day level with the dates of accidents to show that on average, suspending coal mining reduces local …

The recent "coal-to-gas" (CTG) energy policy serves as an important measure to mitigate air pollution in northern China … five villages in northern China. The findings indicate that in general the CTG policy only limitedly alleviated rural …