Beyond Compliance: Examining the Causes of Variation between Local Governments Adoption of Emission Standards for Motor Vehicles

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Brief Overview

Utilizing environmental policy adoption frameworks, this paper adopts data from state Department of Motor Vehicles and Air Quality System database to test the determinants of local government’s adoption of vehicle emission inspection requirements.

Authors

• Xi Chen, Northern Arizona University

• Cosmos Ansah, Northern Arizona University