title: Racial Disparities in Environmental Auditing
creator: Balietti, Anca
creator: Zeising, Tom
subject: ddc-330
subject: 330 Economics
description: This paper investigates the role of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in advancing environmental justice through monitoring and enforcement efforts mandated by the Clean Air Act. Our analysis relies on a comprehensive dataset encompassing auditing information from all environmentally relevant plants between 2000 and 2018. Leveraging county-level variation in racial composition and environmental auditing, we find a substantial and persistent reduction in the proportion of inspected plants following increases in the share of non-White population. This decline coincides with a decrease in political activism, particularly among  entities typically advocating for more stringent environmental protection.
publisher: Universität
date: 2024
type: Working paper
type: info:eu-repo/semantics/workingPaper
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
identifier: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserverhttps://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/34516/6/Balietti_Zeising_dp745_2024.pdf
identifier: DOI:10.11588/heidok.00034516
identifier: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-345167
identifier:   Balietti, Anca ; Zeising, Tom  (2024) Racial Disparities in Environmental Auditing.  [Working paper]     
relation: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/34516/
rights: info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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language: eng