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NCEE Seminar: Paving the Swamp: Consequences of Land Use Regulation Under the Clean Water Act

Date and Time

Wednesday, December 11, 2024
11:00 am - 12:30 pm EST

Location

Virtual Seminar
Washington, DC 20460
United States

Event Type

Webinar

Description

Presenter:  Charles Taylor

Hannah Druckenmiller Joseph S. Shapiro and Charles A. Taylor

We study how environmental regulation of land use affects the environment and the economy. We overlay dramatic recent changes in Clean Water Act jurisdiction due to White House and Supreme Court rules with cross-sectional variation in water resource extent that allows us to approximate property-level exposure to deregulation. We then estimate the impact of water resource deregulation on property values. Additionally, we study project-level decisions by the Army Corps of Engineers on the regulation of individual water resources. Four findings emerge. First, recent rule changes to the Clean Water Act greatly alter regulatory stringency. Second, regulation decreases development activity, as measured from permitting and satellite data. Third, Clean Water Act regulation substantially decreases values of non-residential land parcels that include water resources. Fourth, we compute the economic costs of the Clean Water Act’s land use regulation.

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Contact: Ann Wolverton, 202-566-2278 (wolverton.ann@epa.gov)

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