TY  - GEN
PB  - Universität
EP  - 50
CY  - Heidelberg
A1  - Balietti, Anca
A1  - Zeising, Tom
UR  - https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/34516/
Y1  - 2024///
TI  - Racial Disparities in Environmental Auditing
AV  - public
KW  - Environmental auditing
KW  -  racial demographic shifts
KW  -  Environmental justice
KW  -  Political activism
ID  - heidok34516
T3  - AWI Discussion Paper Series
N2  - 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.
ER  -