The cross-border effects of environmental regulation | VOX,

Press accounts of dirty activities springing up in developing countries, in part to evade stricter environmental regulations in developed ones, are all too common. But previous academic research has found little systematic evidence of such pollution-haven effects between the global North and South. This column looks at the recycling of lead-acid batteries in the US and Mexico,

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