Guerriero and Cairns (2009) recently estimate that contaminated sites and improper waste management result in 848 excess deaths per year in the provinces of Naples and Caserta in Southern Italy, 403 of which are fatal cancers. In the absence of estimates of the Value of a Prevented Fatality...

Several pollution control regimes, including climate change policies, allow polluters in one sector subject to an emissions cap to offset excessive emissions in that sector with pollution abatement in another sector. The government may often find it more costly to verify offset claims than to...

Environmental risk beliefs may be governed more by direct experiences than by indirect experiences derived from outcomes experienced by others. This emphasis could have a rational basis or could be based on behavioral rationales in terms of the well-established Availability Heuristic or the...

תקציר בעברית: בימים אלו נדון הערעור בביהמ"ש העליון בבקשת האישור לתובענה ייצוגית בעניין רותם נ' טל, אשר הוגשה בגין זיהום מתמשך של מי תהום ושמורת עין בוקק. העניין...

This paper studies whether firms shift some pollution from regulated reporting facilities to their non-reporting facilities after the US Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program (GHGRP). Using remotely sensed satellite data, I find that, after the disclosure mandate, PM 2.5 concentration dropped by 6%...

Plastics convey enormous benefits to humankind, but current patterns of plastic production, use, and disposal with little attention to sustainable design and a near absence of recovery, reuse, and recycling are responsible for grave harms to health, great economic costs, and deep societal...

Institutional investors located in cities with social norms friendlier towards the environment (“green” cities) are sensitive to corporate environmental practices. Their portfolios are tilted away from stocks exhibiting negative environmental practices, particularly those headquartered in...

Sustainable finance is simply the alignment of the financial system with principles of sustainability. Investments in climate change mitigation and reduction in greenhouse gases emisiions constitute the largest number of sustainable finance investments. A good number of countries have set up...

Where is the environment in environmental law? People often subconsciously assume that “the environment” exists outdoors. Although it may seem benign, this assumption can affect when, how, and how effectively environmental law and policy addresses indoor and even outdoor environmental...