Environmental Justice and Climate Policy:
Is California’s Cap and Trade Failing Disadvantaged
Communities?

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Abstract/Contents

Abstract: Pollution pricing policies offer advantages over traditional environmental regulation in compliance flexibility and cost effectiveness, but introduce more uncertainty over where emissions will occur. Consequently, environmental justice organisations have raised equity concerns about California’s flagship cap-and-trade program; greenhouse gas emissions trading could generate increased local concentrations of criteria air pollutants in socioeconomically disadvantaged neighborhoods. Using U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) air quality monitoring station data, I use spatial interpolation to construct a census tract-level ten-year panel of concentration for six pollutants. I estimate a difference-in-differences model with fixed effects, and find that cap and trade generally improved relative equity for CO, NO2, PM2.5, PM10 and SO2 but worsened it for O3.

Type of resource	text
Date created	June 2017

Author	You, Calum
Primary advisor	Goulder, Lawrence
Degree granting institution	Stanford University, Department of Economics

Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/cz859wm2332

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Preferred Citation: You, Calum. (2017). Environmental Justice and Climate Policy:
Is California’s Cap and Trade Failing Disadvantaged Communities?. Stanford Digital Repository. Available at: https://purl.stanford.edu/cz859wm2332

Stanford University, Department of Economics, Honors Theses

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