Public land or corporate havens?: the use of lobbying to change environmental policy
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2024
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University of Delaware
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This project examines whether those corporate entities that violate environmental protections are more likely to spend more on lobbying in order to influence the law (i.e. loosen the regulations). Specifically, it examines whether or not those corporations that have more violations spend more on lobbying groups, as compared to corporations with fewer regulatory violations, in order to change laws in their favor. To accomplish this I use a combined data set consisting of EPA violations and corporate spending on firms that lobby at the federal level. This project adds to the discussion by taking a sociological and critical criminology perspective on the ability of corporations to impact environmental law. Though only a descriptive analysis could be conducted, the exploratory nature of the study does identify multiple areas of interest for further research into corporate environmental crime and the difficulties of effective regulations. ☐ Key words: Green Criminology, lobbying, white-collar crime, environment, distributive justice
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Distributive justice, Environment, Green criminology, Lobbying, White-collar crime