Interest group pressures and US county-level toxic emissions

George Kassinis and Nikos Vafeas

Applied Economics Letters, 2007, vol. 14, issue 10, 757-760

Abstract: We address the relation between interest group characteristics and industry environmental performance. Using data on industrial activities from 2097 US counties, we show that there is an inverse relationship between variables proxying for pressures associated with varying levels of county income, population densities and environmental preferences and toxic emissions at the county level. Our results are broadly consistent with the notion that administrators are receptive to interest group pressures in shaping firm policies towards the natural environment.

Date: 2007
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DOI: 10.1080/13504850600592663

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