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RSEI Bibliography

Primary Author Year Topic Area Full Citation
Abel, T. 2007 Policy Abel, T., Stephan, M & Kraft, M. (2007). Environmental information disclosure and risk reduction among the states. State & Local Government Review: 153–165.
Abel, T. 2015 Risk management or planning Abel, T., White, J., & Clauson, S. (2015). Risky Business: Sustainability and Industrial Land Use Across Seattle’s Gentrifying Riskscape. Sustainability, 2015 (7), 15718-15753.
Andersen, D. 2020 Facility performance Andersen, D. (2020). Default Risk, Productivity, and the Environment: Theory and Evidence from U.S. Manufacturing. Environmental & Resource Economics 75 (40): 677-710.
Andersen, D. 2017 Facility performance Andersen, D. (2017). Do credit constraints favor dirty production? Theory and plant-level evidence. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 84, 189–208. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0095069617302103?via%3Dihub
Annenberg, S. 2019 Risk management or planning Annenberg, S., and Kalman, C. (2019). Extreme Weather, Chemical Facilities, and Vulnerable Communities in the U.S. Gulf Coast: A Disastrous Combination. GeoHealth 3(5) 122-126, May.  https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2019GH000197
Antweiler, W. 2017 Policy Antweiler, W. (2017). Emission trading for air pollution hot spots: getting the permit market right. Environmental Economics and Policy Studies, 19 (1), 35–58. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10018-015-0138-x
Ard, K. 2020 Public health Ard, K. and Bullock, C. (2020) Concentrating risk? The geographic concentration of health risk from industrial air toxics across America. Chapter 12 in Spatiotemporal Analysis of Air Pollution and Its Application in Public Health. Editors: Lixin Li, Xiaolu Zhou, Weitian Tong. Elsevier, 277-292, ISBN 9780128158227, 
(https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/B9780128158227000121)
Ard, K. 2020 Public health Ard, K. (2020). 3D Charts: Air Pollution Changes in Metropolitan Detroit, 1988-2004, in Spatial Thinking in Environmental Contexts. 1st Edition. CRC Press,  81-90.
Ard, K. 2016 Public health Ard, K. (2016). By all measures: an examination of the relationship between segregation and health risk from air pollution. Population and Environment, 38 (1), 1–20. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10018-015-0138-x
Ash, M. 2016 Policy Ash, M., & Boyce, J.K. (2016). Assessing the jobs-environment relationship with matched data from US EEOC and US EPA. Working Paper 2016-03. University of Massachusetts – Amherst. 
Ash, M. 2009 Public health Ash, M.,  Boyce, J.K., Chang, G., Pastor, M., Scoggins, J., & Tran, J. (2009). Justice in the Air: Tracking Toxic Pollution from America’s Industries and Companies to our States, Cities, and Neighborhoods. Political Economy Research Institute (Amherst, MA) and Program for Environmental and Regional Equity (Los Angeles, CA).
Bae, H. 2008 Policy Bae, H. et al. (2008). Information Disclosure Policy: Do States' Data Processing Efforts Help More than the Information Disclosure Itself? NBER Working Paper.
Banzhaf, H. 2008 Policy Banzhaf, H. & Randall, P. (2008). Do People Vote with Their Feet? An Empirical Test of Tiebout’s Mechanism. American Economic Review, 98 (3), 843–863.
Berman, J. 2018 Public health Berman, J., Mccormack, M., Koehler, K., Connolly, F., Clemons-Erby, D., Davis, M. & Curriero, F. (2018). School environmental conditions and links to academic performance and absenteeism in urban, mid-Atlantic public schools. International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health, 221 (5), 800–808. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1438463918300713?via%3Dihub
Boyce, J. K. 2012 Global sustainability Boyce, J. K., & Pastor, M.  (2012). Cooling the Planet, Clearing the Air: Climate Policy, Carbon Pricing, and Co-Benefits. Portland, OR: Economics for Equity and the Environment; Washington, DC: Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies. Online at https://works.bepress.com/james_boyce/42/ 
Boyle, J. 2023 Public health Boyle, J., Ward, M.H., Cerhan, J.R.,  Rothman, N., & D.C. Wheeler. (2023) Modeling historic environmental pollutant exposures and non-Hodgkin lymphoma risk. Environmental Research. Volume 224, 115506, ISSN 0013-9351, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2023.115506. 
Brown, P. 2022 Community engagement Brown, P. (2022). Industrial Pollution, Social Trust, and Civic Engagement: A Nationwide Study of the Socioenvironmental Nature of Social Capital. Sociological Perspectives, Jan. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/07311214211067755
California Environmental Protection Agency Air Resources Board 2010 Policy California Environmental Protection Agency Air Resources Board. (2010). Proposed Screening Method for Low-Income Communities Highly Impacted by Air Pollution for AB 32 Assessments. Release Date: April 21, 2010. 
Chang, X. 2018 Facility performance Chang, X., K. Fu, T. Li, Tao, L. Tam, & Wong, G. (2018). Corporate Environmental Liabilities and Capital Structure. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3200991
Charette, A.T. 2022 Facility performance Charette, A.T., Hill, D.T., Collins, M.B., and Mirowsky, J.E.  (2022). Assessing the quantity and toxicity of chemical releases from TRI facilities in Upstate New York. J Environ Stud Sci 12, 417–429. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13412-022-00759-9.
Choi, J. 2023 Policy Choi, J., Hyun, J., Kim, G., and Park, Z. (2023). Trade Policy Uncertainty, Offshoring, and the Environment: Evidence from US Manufacturing Establishments. February 1. Available at SSRN: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4345442 or https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4345442.
Christian, W.J. 2024 Public health Christian, W.J., Walker, C.J.,  McDowell, J., et al. (2024). Geographic and temporal trends in pediatric and young adult brain tumors in Kentucky, 1995–2019, Cancer Epidemiology, Volume 88, 2024, 102499, ISSN 1877-7821, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.canep.2023.102499.
Clark, B. R. 2012 Public health Clark, B. R. (2012). Development of an Air Pollution Asthma Risk-Screening Model for Ohio Elementary Schools (Doctoral dissertation, The Ohio State University).
Collins, M. 2011 Public health Collins, M. (2011). Risk-Based Targeting: Identifying Disproportionalities in the Sources and Effects of Industrial Pollution. American Journal of Public Health: December 2011, Vol. 101, No. S1, pp. S231-S237. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2011.300120
Collins, M.B. 2023 Policy Collins, M.B., Pulver, S, Hill, D.T., and Manski, B. (2023). Targeted Pollution Management Can Significantly Reduce Toxic Emissions While Limiting Adverse Effects on Employment in US Manufacturing. Environmental science & policy. 139: 157–165. 
Collins, M. 2020 Public health Collins, M., Pulver, S., Hill, D. and Manski, B. (2020) Characterizing Disproportionality in Facility-Level Toxic Releases in US Manufacturing, 1988-2012. Environmental Research Letters. 15(6), 64002-.
Cong, Y. 2014 Facility performance Cong, Y., Freedman, M. & Park, J. (2014). Tone at the top: CEO environmental rhetoric and environmental performance. Advances in Accounting, 30 (2), 322–327.
Conley, J. F. 2011 Public health Conley, J. F. (2011). Estimation of exposure to toxic releases using spatial interaction modeling. International Journal of Health Geographics. 10: 20-20.
Crane, B. 2023 Public health Crane, B., Moored, K., Donahue, P., & A.E. Corrigan, et al. (2023). Toxic chemical emissions and dementia risk: results from the Cardiovascular Health Cognition study. Innovation in Aging. 12, Vol.7 (Supplement 1), p.357-358.
Currie, J. 2015 Other Currie, J., Davis, L., Greenstone, M. & Walker, R. (2015). Environmental Health Risks and Housing Values: Evidence from 1,600 Toxic Plant Openings and Closings. American Economic Review 2015, 105 (2), 678–709.
Delmas, Magali 2010 Facility performance Delmas, Magali and Vered Doctori Blass. (2010). Measuring Corporate Environmental Performance: the Trade-Offs of Sustainability Ratings. Business Strategy and the Environment 19, 245–260.
Dombrowski, Janine M. 2000 Risk management or planning Dombrowski, Janine M. (2000). Cross-Media Transfers of Pollution and Risk. Doctoral dissertation, University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Feger, D 2020 Public health Feger, D., Corrigan, A., Crane, B., and M. Carlson. (2020) Environmental Toxicity Exposure and Ability to Perform Instrumental Activities of Daily Living in Several US Geographic Locations. Alzheimers & Dementia. 16.
Fetter, T. R. 2017 Other Fetter, T. R. (2017). Innovation, diffusion, and regulation in energy technologies (Order No. 10259835). Available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global. (1898142503). https://dukespace.lib.duke.edu/items/f8631f4a-7427-4955-9794-33e54fdea93a
Fikru, M. 2017 Facility performance Fikru, M. (2017). Developing environmental performance indicators for food and beverage processors in the USA. Ecological Indicators, 79, 106–113. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1470160X17301802?via%3Dihub
Flax-Hatch, J. 2022 Public health Flax-Hatch, J. (2022). Proximity analysis of public schools and major sources of pollution within Chicago, Illinois. MS Thesis. University of Illinois at Chicago, Graduate College. https://www.proquest.com/openview/e41283e39890b606b975d6e91e454613/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750&diss=y 
Fujii, H. 2017 Industry performance Fujii, H. Okamoto, S. Kagawa, S. & Managi, S. (2017). Decomposition of toxicity emission changes on the demand and supply sides: empirical study of the US industrial sector. Environ. Res. Lett., 12, 124008. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aa9c66
Gatzke-Kopp, L. 2024 Public health Gatzke-Kopp, L., Willoughby, M., & A. Kress, et al. (2024). Airborne Lead Exposure and Childhood Cognition: The Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) Cohort (2003–2022). American Journal of Public Health. 114, 309-318. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2023.307519  
Gatzke-Kopp, L. 2021 Public health Gatzke-Kopp, L., Warkentien, S., Willoughby, M., Fowler, C., Folch, D., & Clancy, B. (2021). Proximity to sources of airborne lead is associated with reductions in Children's executive function in the first four years of life. Health & Place, Volume 68. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1353829221000137?via%3Dihub
Gianaros, P. 2023 Public health Gianaros, P. , Miller, P. , Manuck, S. , Kuan, D. , Rosso, A. , Votruba-Drzal, E. & Marsland, A. (2023). Beyond neighborhood disadvantage: local resources, green space, pollution, and crime as residential community correlates of cardiovascular risk and brain morphology in midlife adults. Psychosomatic Medicine, 85 (5), 378-388. doi: 10.1097/PSY.0000000000001199.
Goldstein, A. 2023 Public health Goldstein, A. (2023) Geographic patterns of childhood and adolescent germ cell tumor incidence in Georgia and their association with Toxics Release Inventory RSEI scores. MA Thesis. Emory University, Rollins School of Public Health. https://etd.library.emory.edu/concern/etds/sj139331k?locale=en. 
Gough, P. 2022 Public health Gough, P.,  Zeldin, J., & I. Myles. (2022). Assessing microbial manipulation and environmental pollutants in the pathogenesis of psoriasis. Front. Immunol., 19 December 2022. Sec. Molecular Innate Immunity. Volume 13. https://doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2022.1094376.
Grineski, S.E. 2022 Public health Grineski, S.E., Renteria, R., Collins, T.W., Mangadu A., Alexander, C., Bilder, D., and Bakian, A. (2022). Associations Between Estimates of Perinatal Industrial Pollution Exposures and Intellectual Disability in Utah Children. The Science of the total environment 836: 155630–155630.
Hill, D.T. 2022 Policy Hill, D.T., and Collins, M.B. (2022). Toxic Waste and Public Procurement: The Defense Sector as a Disproportionate Contributor to Pollution from Public-Private Partnerships. Regulation & governance. First published: 24 March, 2022 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/rego.12462.
Hill, D. 2021 Public health Hill, D., & Petroni, M., & Larsen, D., & Bendinskas, K., & Heffernan, K., & Atallah-Yunes, N., & Parsons, P., & Palmer, C.,& MacKenzie, J., & Collins, M., & Gump, B. (2021). Linking metal (Pb, Hg, Cd) industrial air pollution risk to blood metal levels and cardiovascular functioning and structure among children in Syracuse, NY. Environmental Research. 193. 110557. 10.1016/j.envres.2020.110557.
Hill, D.T. 2020 Policy Hill, D.T., Vidon, E.S. & Collins, M.B. (2020). Public money and private interests: United States government contract awardees’ contribution to industrial pollution production. J Environ Stud Sci 10, 213–225. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13412-020-00614-9
Hill, E. 2017 Public health Hill, E. & Ma, L. (2017) Does Shale Gas Development Impact Infant Health through Drinking Water? Iowa State University, Economics Department. https://www.econ.iastate.edu/files/events/files/sgd_dw_health_paper_isu.pdf 
Hoang, P. 2018 Facility performance Hoang, P., McGuire, W., & Prakash, A. (2018). Reducing Toxic Chemical Pollution in Response to Multiple Information Signals: The 33/50 Voluntary Program and Toxicity Disclosures. Ecological Economics, 146, 193–202. https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0921800917305815
Holladay, S. 2008 Pollution prevention Holladay, S. (2008). Are Exporters Mother Nature’s Best Friends? Working paper. Department of Economics, UCB Boulder CO.
Holladay, J. S. 2016 Pollution prevention Holladay, J. S. (2016). Exporters and the environment. Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d'économique 49: 147–172. doi:10.1111/caje.12193 
Huh D-A 2019 Risk management or planning Huh D-A, Huh E-H, Byeon S-H, Sohn J-R, Moon KW. (2019). Development of Accident Probability Index Using Surrogate Indicators of Chemical Accidents in Chemical Plants. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.  16(18):3271. https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/16/18/3271
Jacqz, I. 2022 Public health Jacqz, I. (2022). Toxic test scores: The impact of chemical releases on standardized test performance within U.S. schools. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. 115: 102628.
Jacqz, I. 2020 Public health Jacqz, I. (2020). Essays on Air Toxics: Distribution, Drivers, and Consequences. University of Wisconsin-Madison, 175pp.
Kagawa, S. 2022 Public health Kagawa, S., Tokito, S., Fujii, H., Lenzen, M., Faturay, F., & Okamoto, S. (2022). Toxic Chemical Pollutants in the US States. Preprint. https://assets.researchsquare.com/files/rs-1627627/v1_covered.pdf?c=1652464268. 
Kanashiro, P. 2020 Facility performance Kanashiro, P. (2020). Can environmental governance lower toxic emissions? A panel study of U.S. high‐polluting industries. Business Strategy and the Environment 
Kanashiro, P. 2017 Facility performance Kanashiro, P. and Rivera, J. (2017). Do Chief Sustainability Officers Make Companies Greener? The Moderating Role of Regulatory Pressures. Journal of Business Ethics. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10551-017-3461-2
Katner, A. 2015 Public health Katner, A. (2015). Prioritization of Louisiana Parishes based on Industrial Releases of Known or Suspected Carcinogens. The Journal of the Louisiana State Medical Society : Official Organ of the Louisiana State Medical Society, 167 (3), 122-128.
Kim, S. 2021 Public health Kim, S., Lim, Y., & Bae, H.  (2021). A Study on the Spatiotemporal Characteristics of a Hazard-based Index using the Pollutant Release and Transfer Register Data. Journal of Environmental Health Sciences. Volume 47, Issue 2, pp. 144-54.
Klemick H. 2022 Public health Klemick H., Guignet D., Bui L.T., Shadbegian R., Milani C. (2022). Cardiovascular Mortality and Leaded Aviation Fuel: Evidence from Piston-Engine Air Traffic in North Carolina. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 19(10):5941. https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/19/10/5941. 
Kraft, M. 2014 Policy Kraft, M. (2014). Using Information Disclosure to Achieve Policy Goals: How Experience with the Toxics Release Inventory Can Inform Action on Natural Gas Fracturing. Issues in Energy and Environmental Policy, 6. 
Koval, P. 2018 Public health Koval, P. (2018) Toxic Effects of Lead Disposal in Water: An Analysis of TRI Facility Releases. College of the Holy Cross, Department Of Economics, Faculty Research Series, Paper No. 18-09.
Lam, C. W. 2011 Pollution prevention Lam, C. W., Lim, S. R., & Schoenung, J. M. (2011). Environmental and risk screening for prioritizing pollution prevention opportunities in the US printed wiring board manufacturing industry. Journal of hazardous materials, 189(1), 315-322.
Langlois, T. 2018 Other Langlois, T., Carbajales-Dale, M.; and Carraway, E. (2018) Visualizing Relative Potential for Aquatic Ecosystem Toxicity Using the EPA Toxics Release Inventory and Life Cycle Assessment Methods, Journal of South Carolina Water Resources: Vol. 5 : Issue 1 , Article 2. DOI: https://tigerprints.clemson.edu/jscwr/vol5/iss1/2/
La Sorte, F.A. 2023 Other La Sorte, F.A., Lepczyk, C.A., and Aronson, M.F.J. (2023). Light pollution enhances ground-level exposure to airborne toxic chemicals for nocturnally migrating passerines. Global Change Biology. Volume 29, Issue 1. January, Pages 57-68.
Lavery, A.M. 2018 Public health Lavery, A.M., Waubant, E., Casper, T.C., Roalstad, S., et al. (2018). Urban air quality and associations with pediatric multiple sclerosis. Ann Clin Transl Neurol. Sep 27;5(10):1146-1153. doi: 10.1002/acn3.616. PMID: 30349849; PMCID: PMC6186930.
Li, W. 2022 Pollution prevention Li, W. and Neupane-Joshi, S. and Tan, K.J.K. (2022). Toxic Emissions and Corporate Green Innovation (October 21). Available at SSRN: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4113290.
Li, X. 2017 Pollution prevention Li, X. and Zhou, Y. M. (2017). Offshoring Pollution while Offshoring Production? Strat. Mgmt. J, 38: 2310–2329. doi:10.1002/smj.2656.
Li, Z. 2022 Policy Li, Z. (2022). Alarmed but Unmoved: The Impact of the Provision of Correct Local Environmental Information. Political Behavior. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11109-022-09819-w.
Li, Z. 2023 Community engagement Li, Z., & Konisky, D. M. (2023). Personal attributes and (mis)perceptions of local environmental risk. Review of Policy Research, 40, 119– 152. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ropr.12504.
Liévanos, R. S. 2018 Other Liévanos, R. S. (2018). Impaired Water Hazard Zones: Mapping Intersecting Environmental Health Vulnerabilities and Polluter Disproportionality. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information. 7(11): 433.
Lievanos, R. 2016 Public health Lievanos, R. (2016). Sociospatial Dimensions of Water Injustice: The Distribution of Surface Water Toxic Releases in California’s Bay-Delta. Sociological Perspectives. doi: 10.1177/0731121416648935
Lim, S. 2011 Risk management or planning Lim, S., Lam, C., & Schoenung, J. (2011). Priority screening of toxic chemicals and industry sectors in the U.S. toxics release inventory: A comparison of the life cycle impact-based and risk-based assessment tools developed by U.S. EPA. Journal of Environmental Management, 92(9), 2235–2240. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301479711001265?via%3Dihub
Lim, S. 2010 Risk management or planning Lim, S., Lam, C., & Schoenung, J. (2010). Quantity-based and toxicity-based evaluation of the U.S. Toxics Release Inventory. Journal of Hazardous Materials 178 49–56.
Lim, Y.R. 2022 Risk management or planning Lim, Y.R., Gan, S.Y.,  Bae, H.J. (2022) A Study on the Spatiotemporal Characteristics of Chemical Discharges and Quantified Hazard-Based Result Scores Using Pollutant Release and Transfer Register Data. J Environ Health Sci. 48(5): 272-281. https://www.e-jehs.org/journal/view.html?doi=10.5668/JEHS.2022.48.5.272. 
Lucier, C. 2011 Public health Lucier, C., Rosofsky, A., London, B., Scharber, H., & Shandra, J. M. (2011). Toxic Pollution and School Performance Scores Environmental Ascription in East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana. Organization & Environment, 24 (4), 423-443.
Martenies, S. E. 2023 Public health Martenies, S. E., Zhang, M., & A.E. Corrigan, et al. (2023). Developing a national-scale exposure index for combined environmental hazards and social stressors and applications to the environmental influences on child health outcomes (ECHO) cohort. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 20(14), 6339. doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20146339. 
Metcalf, A. 2016 Facility performance Metcalf, A., Mackelprang, A. and Galbreth M. (2016) Linking pollution toxicity and human exposure to firm idiosyncratic risk. Journal of Cleaner Production 131 (10 ), September 2016, 659-666. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S095965261630405X?via%3Dihub
Min, E. 2019 Public health Min, E., Gruen, D., Banerjee, D., Echeverria, et al. (2019). The Washington State Environmental Health Disparities Map: Development of a Community-Responsive Cumulative Impacts Assessment Tool. Int J Environ Res Public Health. Nov 13; 16(22): 4470. doi: 10.3390/ijerph16224470. PMID: 31766307; PMCID: PMC6888266.
Mohai, P. 2011 Public health Mohai, P., Kweon, B. S., Lee, S., & Ard, K. (2011). Air pollution around schools is linked to poorer student health and academic performance. Health Affairs, 30(5), 852-862.
Moore, R. 2016 Public health Moore, R., & Hotchkiss, J. (2016). The importance of toxicity in determining the impact of hazardous air pollutants on the respiratory health of children in Tennessee. Environmental Pollution, 216, 616–623.  https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0269749116305103?via%3Dihub
Morrison, B 2008 Public health Morrison, B., Heath, B., et al. (2008). The Smokestack Effect: Toxic Air and America’s Schools. Special Report. USA Today. 
Naaraayanan, S. 2021 Facility performance Naaraayanan, S., Sachdeva, K. and Sharma, V. (2021). The Real Effects of Environmental Activist Investing (September 18, 2020). European Corporate Governance Institute – Finance Working Paper No. 743, Available at SSRN: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3483692
Ogneva-Himmelberger, Y. 2015 Public health Ogneva-Himmelberger, Y., Dahlberg, T., Kelly, K. & Simas, T. (2015). Using Geographic Information Science to Explore Associations between Air Pollution, Environmental Amenities, and Preterm Births. AIMS Public Health, 2(3), 469-486.
Perricane, L. 2015 Facility performance Perricane, L., (2015). County demographic influence on toxic chemical activities of chemical-related industry in Michigan. Walden University Dissertation. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/1420/ 
Pfohl, M. 2022 Risk management or planning Pfohl, M., Silvestri, E., Lipscomb, J.C., Snyder, E. & Willison, S. (2022) Evaluating risk, exposure, and detection capabilities for chemical threats in water, Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health, Part A, 85:15, 622-647, DOI: 10.1080/15287394.2022.2064949.
Puchalsky, R. 2021 Policy Puchalsky, R., Ash, M., & Boyce, J. (2021).  Building on the Right-to-Know: Data Interlinkage and Information Intermediation for Environmental and Corporate Regulation. The Routledge Handbook of the Political Economy of the Environment, edited by Eloi Laurent and Klara Zwickl. Routledge, October. link
Ramsay, J. M. 2022 Public health Ramsay, J. M., Fendereski, K., Horns, J. J., Vanderslice, J., Emery, B. R., Aston, K. I., & Hotaling, J. (2022). Environmental exposure to industrial air pollution is associated with decreased male fertility. Fertility and Sterility, 118(4), e9. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0015028222005647?via%3Dihub
Rosofsky, A. 2014 Public health Rosofsky, A., Lucier, C., London, B., Scharber, H., Borges-Mendez, R. & Shandra, J. (2014). Environmental ascription in Worcester County, MA: Toxic pollution and education outcomes. Local Environment, 19 (3), 283–299.  https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13549839.2013.788485
Rüttenauer, T. 2019 Public health Rüttenauer, T. (2019): Bringing Urban Space Back in: A Multi-Level Analysis of Environmental Inequality in Germany. Urban Studies 56(12), 2549–2567. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0042098018795786.
Rüttenauer, T. 2018 Public health Rüttenauer, T. (2018). Neighbours matter: A nation-wide small-area assessment of environmental inequality in Germany. Social Science Research, 70, 198–211. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0049089X17305197?via%3Dihub 
Sadd, J. L. 2011 Public health Sadd, J. L., Pastor, M., Morello-Frosch, R., Scoggins, J. & Jesdale, B. (2011). Playing It Safe: Assessing Cumulative Impact and Social Vulnerability through an Environmental Justice Screening Method in the South Coast Air Basin, California. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health, 8 (5), 1441-1459. 
Salazar, D. 2019 Public health Salazar, D., Clauson, S.,  Abel, T., and Clauson, A. (2019). Race, Income, and Environmental Inequality in the U.S. States, 1990–2014. Social Science Quarterly 100(3): 592-603.
Sampson, R. 2018 Facility performance Sampson, R. & Zhou, Y. (2018). Public vs. Private Firms: Energy Efficiency, Toxic Emissions and Abatement Spending. Forthcoming, Advances in Strategic Management: Sustainability, Stakeholder Governance and Corporate Social Responsibility. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3125155
Scharber, H. 2013 Public health Scharber, H., Lucier, C., London, B., Rosofsky, A., and Shandra, J. (2013). The consequences of exposure to developmental, neurological, and respiratory toxins for school performance: a closer look at environmental ascription in East Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Population and Environment. Volume 35, Issue 2, pp. 205-224. December.
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Smiley, K. 2017 Policy Smiley, K. (2017). Industrial Pollution and Civic Capacity in Metropolitan America. Diss., Rice University. https://scholarship.rice.edu/handle/1911/96086
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