eprintid: 34516
rev_number: 17
eprint_status: archive
userid: 3114
dir: disk0/00/03/45/16
datestamp: 2024-03-07 09:52:42
lastmod: 2024-04-05 09:53:30
status_changed: 2024-03-07 09:52:42
type: workingPaper
metadata_visibility: show
creators_name: Balietti, Anca
creators_name: Zeising, Tom
title: Racial Disparities in Environmental Auditing
subjects: ddc-330
divisions: i-181000
keywords: Environmental auditing, racial demographic shifts, Environmental justice, Political activism
abstract: 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.
date: 2024
publisher: Universität
id_scheme: DOI
id_number: 10.11588/heidok.00034516
schriftenreihe_cluster_id: sr-3
schriftenreihe_order: 0745
ppn_swb: 1884497748
own_urn: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-345167
language: eng
bibsort: BALIETTIANRACIALDISP20240228
full_text_status: public
series: AWI Discussion Paper Series
volume: 0745
place_of_pub: Heidelberg
pages: 50
citation:   Balietti, Anca ; Zeising, Tom  (2024) Racial Disparities in Environmental Auditing.  [Working paper]     
document_url: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/34516/6/Balietti_Zeising_dp745_2024.pdf