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.
Recommended Citation
Ash, Michael and Boyce, James K., "Measuring Corporate Environmental Justice Performance" (2008). Economics Department Working Paper Series. 18.
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