State and Local Government Review · 2007 · 15 citations · 34 references
BusinessEnvironmental PolicyCorporate DisclosureEnvironmental AccountingRisk AssessmentEnvironmental ReportingToxic Release ReportingEnvironmental Disclosure ReportingEnvironmental Risk DisclosureFacility-level ReportingInformation DisclosureRegulatory ScrutinyToxic Release InventoriesToxic Release Inventory ReportingToxic Substance Release Reporting
In what has become a rite of spring, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agen cy (EPA) each year publishes a report of the latest data from the Toxics Release In ventory (TRI). This prominent information disclosure program is grounded in the as sumption that revealing manufacturing pol lution information will spur better industrial environmental performance (Graham and Miller 2001; Hamilton 2005).These data and the innovative program from which they are generated have received considerable scrutiny among researchers. Yet most of this research analyzes national or facility-level trends (Grant, Jones, and Bergesen 2002; Grant, Jones, and Trautner 2004) rather than variation among the states. Although researchers interested in state variations have studied other kinds of
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