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Report. IMO/FAO/UNESCO/WMO/WHO/IAEA/UN/UNEP Joint Group of Experts on the Scientific Aspects of Marine Environmental Protection. Sess. 25
1995
Pollution abatement costs, regulation, and plant-level productivity
1995
Gray, Wayne B. (Wayne Burger) | Shadbegian, Ronald J.
We analyze the connection between productivity, pollution abatement expenditures, and other measures of environmental regulation for plants in three industries (paper, oil, and steel). We examine data from 1979 to 1990, considering both total factor productivity levels and growth rates. Plants with higher abatement cost levels have significantly lower productivity levels. The magnitude of the impact is somewhat larger than expected: $1 greater abatement costs appears to be associated with the equivalent of $1.74 in lower productivity for paper mills, $1.35 for oil refineries, and $3.28 for steel mills. However, these results apply only to variation across plants in productivity levels. Estimates looking at productivity variation within plants over time, or estimates using productivity growth rates show a smaller (and insignificant) relationship between abatement costs and productivity. Other measures of environmental regulation faced by the plants (compliance status, enforcement activity, and emissions) are not significantly related to productivity.
Show more [+] Less [-]Basin sub-basin inventory of water pollution Cauvery Basin | Cauvery Basin
1995
Basin sub-basin inventory of water pollution Godavari Basin
1995
Wisconsin's forestry best management practices for water quality | Best management practices for water quality | Field manual for loggers, landowners and land managers
1995
Holaday, Steve
Statewide screening of groundwater nitrate pollution potential from agricultural lands in Pennsylvania
1995
Hamlett, James M.
The bioeconomics of regulating nitrates in groundwater from agricultural production through taxes, quantity restrictions, and pollution permits
1995
Thomas, Arthur C. | Boisvert, Richard N.