Air Quality Impacts of Shale Gas Development in Pennsylvania
Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists(2023)
摘要
We estimate the impact of shale gas development on particulate matter pollution using a quasi-experimental setting in Pennsylvania where some wells were developed to produce natural gas whereas other wells were permitted but not drilled. In doing so, we utilize a novel empirical approach drawing upon insights from atmospheric chemistry to account for windblown pollution spillovers in a difference-in-differences framework. Utilizing a high frequency, high resolution satellite-based measure of PM pollution between 2000 and 2018, we identify causal increases in PM2.5 concentration ranging from 0.017 & mu;g/m(3) to 0.062 & mu;g/m(3) in the vicinity of over 20,000 wells, resulting in approximately 20 additional deaths between 2010 and 2017.
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shale gas,fracking,air pollution,particulate matter,aerosol optical depth,difference-in-differences,spillovers,mortality
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