Environmental Information Disclosure: Three Cases of Policy and Politics

Thomas Beierle

RFF Working Paper Series from Resources for the Future

Abstract: One of the most notable innovations in environmental management in the past 15 years has been the use of environmental information disclosure as a strategy for improving firms’ environmental performance. Following the Environmental Protection Agency’s success with the Toxics Release Inventory, the agency and Congress initiated a number of other disclosure initiatives. This discussion paper documents the experience of three of these: risk management planning, materials accounting, and the Sector Facility Indexing Project. The paper examines the benefits and costs of these programs, their effectiveness, and the dynamics by which disclosure works.

Keywords: disclosure; Toxics Release Inventory; risk management planning; materials accounting; Sector Facility Indexing Project; right-to-know (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q28 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2003-03-01
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