The Empirical Relationship between Mining Industry Development and Environmental Pollution in China

Gerui Li, Yalin Lei, Jianping Ge and Sanmang Wu
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Gerui Li: School of Humanities and Economics Management, China University of Geosciences, Beijing 100083, China
Yalin Lei: School of Humanities and Economics Management, China University of Geosciences, Beijing 100083, China
Jianping Ge: School of Humanities and Economics Management, China University of Geosciences, Beijing 100083, China
Sanmang Wu: School of Humanities and Economics Management, China University of Geosciences, Beijing 100083, China

IJERPH, 2017, vol. 14, issue 3, 1-20

Abstract: This study uses a vector autoregression (VAR) model to analyze changes in pollutants among different mining industries and related policy in China from 2001 to 2014. The results show that: (1) because the pertinence of standards for mining waste water and waste gas emissions are not strong and because the maximum permissible discharge pollutant concentrations in these standards are too high, ammonia nitrogen and industrial sulfur dioxide discharges increased in most mining industries; (2) chemical oxygen demand was taken as an indicator of sewage treatment in environmental protection plans; hence, the chemical oxygen demand discharge decreased in all mining industries; (3) tax reduction policies, which are only implemented in coal mining and washing and extraction of petroleum and natural gas, decreased the industrial solid waste discharge in these two mining industries.

Keywords: mining industry; environmental pollution; policy; VAR; China (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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