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The Impacts of Environmental Regulations on Industrial Activity: Evidence from the 1970 and 1977 Clean Air Act Amendments and the Census of Manufactures

Greenstone, Michael·2002·Journal of Political Economy
DOI 10.1086/342808
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This paper estimates the impacts of the Clean Air Act's division of counties into pollutant‐specific nonattainment and attainment categories on measures of industrial activity obtained from 1.75 million plant observations from the Census of Manufactures. Emitters of the controlled pollutants in nonattainment counties were subject to greater regulatory oversight than emitters in attainment counties. The preferred statistical model for plant‐level growth includes plant fixed effects, industry by period fixed effects, and county by period fixed effects. The estimates from this model suggest that in the first 15 years in which the Clean Air Act was in force (1972–87), nonattainment counties (relative to attainment ones) lost approximately 590,000 jobs, $37 billion in capital stock, and $75 billion (1987 dollars) of output in pollution‐intensive industries. These findings are robust across many specifications, and the effects are apparent in many polluting industries.

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Authors
Greenstone, M.
Venue
Journal of Political Economy
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Published
2002-12
Volume
110
Issue
6
Pages
1175-1219
ISSN
  • 0022-3808 (ISSN-L)
  • 1537-534X
DOI
10.1086/342808
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1,122
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journal article
Language
en
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