Media attention and the Toxics Release Inventory

Saha, Shrawantee; Mohr, Robert D.

doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2013.05.008

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“…The main forms of mass media mainly include newspapers and the Internet, and the above regress has used the "Baidu Index" to express the role of the Internet. Therefore, according to the research methods of previous scholars, we used the most influential newspapers in the local area of each province (mainly the regional daily newspaper), and the keywords of "environmental pollution," "water pollution," "air pollution," and "solid waste" are used to search respectively [79,80]. The number of news reports obtained is summed up to show the informal environmental regulations variables.…”

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The Effect of Heterogeneous Environmental Regulations on Carbon Emission Efficiency of the Grain Production Industry: Evidence from China’s Inter-Provincial Panel Data

Fan

2022

Sustainability

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Examining the impact of heterogeneous environmental regulations on the carbon emission efficiency of the grain production industry will help to provide a theoretical basis and decision-making reference for achieving the goal of carbon peaking and sustainable agricultural development. Based on the panel data of 30 provinces in China, the DEA-SBM method was used to measure the grain production industry’s carbon emission efficiency from 2011 to 2019. Separating environmental regulations into formal environmental regulations and informal environmental regulations in two parts, then the two-way fixed effect model, threshold effect model, and intermediary effect model are used to test the influence of heterogeneous environmental regulations on the grain production industry’s carbon emission efficiency. The results show that: (1) the grain production industry’s carbon emission efficiency continues to improve but still has space for improvement. (2) the relationship between formal environmental regulations and the grain production industry’s carbon emission efficiency exhibits a “U-shaped” curve; informal environmental regulations have a significantly positive effect on improving the grain production industry’s carbon emission efficiency. The conclusion is still valid after the robustness test. (3) A threshold mechanism test found that there is a single threshold effect between the formal environmental regulations and the grain production industry’s carbon emission efficiency, but it does not cross the “U” inflection point. (4) there is a “U” shaped non-linear mediating effect in the influence of formal environmental regulations on the grain production industry’s carbon emission efficiency; informal environmental regulations also have an intermediary transmission path of production agglomeration of the grain production industry. This study supplies a new perspective for promoting the grain production industry’s carbon emission efficiency.

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The Effect of Heterogeneous Environmental Regulations on Carbon Emission Efficiency of the Grain Production Industry: Evidence from China’s Inter-Provincial Panel Data

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2022

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“…Heinz (2005) searches three major newspapers for terms like “environmental justice” or “environmental racism” and finds only 40 articles in an 11-year span. Saha and Mohr (2013) also find few explicit mentions of race in a search of articles about the toxic releases. When race is mentioned, newspapers frame environmental stories differently depending on where the newspaper is located (Bendix and Liebler 1999), whether the newspaper serves a diverse community (Griffin and Dunwoody 1997) and whether an event affects a minority community (Swain 2009; Moore and Lanthorn 2017).…”

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Coverage of National Priority List sites by the print media during the implementation of Superfund: the role of race and income

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Agric. Resour. Econom. Rev.

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We review 1982–1984 articles identifying Superfund sites in three national newspapers. Articles almost never identify the race of nearby residents. Based on sites receiving disproportionate coverage, readers might conclude that Superfund generally affected white, working-class families, but results do not support this narrative. In a pooled sample, neither race nor income predicts the number of times a site gets mentioned. When the sample is partitioned by newspaper or by each newspaper's coverage of nearby sites, a positive relationship emerges between the proportion of Hispanic or nonwhite residents and the number of articles about a site. We discuss this apparent contradiction.

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“…This result is not surprising as plants are likely to be inspected under toxics and other programs simultaneously.3Saha and Mohr (2013) find that media attention has a deterrent effect on pollution from toxics releasing facilities in the US.…”

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“… 3 Saha and Mohr (2013) find that media attention has a deterrent effect on pollution from toxics releasing facilities in the US.…”

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Environmental deterrence in developing countries: evidence from enforcement actions and fines under the toxics monitoring program of Mexico

Chakraborti

2022

Envir. Dev. Econ.

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In this study we investigate the effectiveness of environmental regulation in a large developing country. We construct a panel of 3,436 major toxics polluters from 2004 to 2015 using detailed plant-specific data on toxics releases, inspections, and fines, across Mexico. Our results show that regulators target polluters who are significantly non-compliant and impose higher fines on them. This has implications for the cost efficiency of monitoring and regulatory enforcement. An additional priority violation increases current toxics inspections, fines, and amount of fines by 7, 5 and 18 per cent, respectively. An additional priority violation followed by fines imposed on the plant results in a reduction in annual toxics releases by more than 50 per cent. Higher fines imposed on other major facilities in the same municipality induce plants to reduce the annual release of toxic pollutants by 0.1 per cent. Finally, inspections and fines increase the likelihood of reporting toxics releases.

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Media attention and the Toxics Release Inventory

Cited by 17 publications

References 20 publications

The Effect of Heterogeneous Environmental Regulations on Carbon Emission Efficiency of the Grain Production Industry: Evidence from China’s Inter-Provincial Panel Data

The Effect of Heterogeneous Environmental Regulations on Carbon Emission Efficiency of the Grain Production Industry: Evidence from China’s Inter-Provincial Panel Data

Coverage of National Priority List sites by the print media during the implementation of Superfund: the role of race and income

Environmental deterrence in developing countries: evidence from enforcement actions and fines under the toxics monitoring program of Mexico

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