Economics Department Working Paper Series
Working Paper Number
2008-16
Publication Date
2008
Abstract
Measures of corporate environmental justice performance can be a valuable tool in efforts to promote corporate social responsibility and to document systematic patterns of environmental injustice. This paper develops such a measure based on the extent to which toxic air emissions from industrial facilities disproportionately impact racial and ethnic minorities and low-income people. Applying the measure to 100 major corporate air polluters in the United States, we find wide variation in the extent of disproportional exposures. In a number of cases, minorities bear more than half of the total human health impacts from the firm's industrial air pollution.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.7275/1068816
Recommended Citation
Ash, Michael and Boyce, James K., "Measuring Corporate Environmental Justice Performance" (2008). Economics Department Working Paper Series. 18.
https://doi.org/10.7275/1068816