PMID- 32430281
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20200623
LR  - 20200623
IS  - 1095-8630 (Electronic)
IS  - 0301-4797 (Linking)
VI  - 269
DP  - 2020 Sep 1
TI  - Environmental regulation and energy-environmental performance-Empirical evidence 
      from China's non-ferrous metals industry.
PG  - 110722
LID - S0301-4797(20)30654-X [pii]
LID - 10.1016/j.jenvman.2020.110722 [doi]
AB  - Environmental regulation (ER) is regarded as an important driver of environmental 
      improvement. Taking China's non-ferrous metals industry (NFMI) as a sample, this 
      paper discusses the relationship between ER and energy environmental performance 
      (EEPI) in two stages, and tests the effectiveness of the "strong" Porter 
      hypothesis. In the first stage, this paper uses the global environment DEA to 
      construct the competitiveness index, EEPI, which represents "green" development. 
      In the second stage, we explore the relationship between two types of ER and EEPI 
      by using the panel Tobit model and considers the non-linear characteristics of ER 
      and regional heterogeneity. Moreover, a mechanism analysis is conducted. The 
      results show that: (1) at a reasonable regulatory level, this study supports the 
      "strong" Porter hypothesis in China's NFMI. (2) Technological innovation plays a 
      mediating effect between environmental regulation and EEPI. (3) From a national 
      perspective, there is a significant inverted U-shaped non-linear relationship 
      between environmental expenditure and EEPI, and a significant U-shaped non-linear 
      relationship between environmental investment and EEPI. (4) Regional samples 
      present heterogeneous results between ER and EEPI. Based on the conclusions, we 
      believe that environmental regulation policies should take into account regional 
      differences and incorporate diversified green innovations to achieve sustainable 
      development.
CI  - Copyright (c) 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
FAU - Lin, Boqiang
AU  - Lin B
AD  - School of Management, China Institute for Studies in Energy Policy, Collaborative 
      Innovation Center for Energy Economics and Energy Policy, Xiamen University, 
      Xiamen, Fujian, 361005, China. Electronic address: bqlin@xmu.edu.cn.
FAU - Chen, Xing
AU  - Chen X
AD  - School of Management, China Institute for Studies in Energy Policy, Collaborative 
      Innovation Center for Energy Economics and Energy Policy, Xiamen University, 
      Xiamen, Fujian, 361005, China.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20200518
PL  - England
TA  - J Environ Manage
JT  - Journal of environmental management
JID - 0401664
RN  - 0 (Metals)
SB  - IM
MH  - China
MH  - *Environmental Policy
MH  - *Industry
MH  - Investments
MH  - Metals
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - China's non-ferrous metals industry
OT  - DEA
OT  - Energy-environmental performance
OT  - Environmental regulation
OT  - Tobit
COIS- Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known 
      competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared 
      to influence the work reported in this paper.
EDAT- 2020/05/21 06:00
MHDA- 2020/06/24 06:00
CRDT- 2020/05/21 06:00
PHST- 2019/12/01 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2020/04/07 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2020/05/06 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2020/05/21 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2020/06/24 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2020/05/21 06:00 [entrez]
AID - S0301-4797(20)30654-X [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.jenvman.2020.110722 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - J Environ Manage. 2020 Sep 1;269:110722. doi: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2020.110722. Epub 
      2020 May 18.