Corporate lobbying for environmental protection

Corporate Lobbying for Environmental Protection

Much of the time, firms lobby against environmental protection, but there are major exceptions to this rule. DuPont, the leading ozone polluter in the 1980s, lobbied for a complete ban of its product. In 2015, in the run up to the Paris Agreement, Europe's six largest oil and gas companies lobbied for a global carbon price. This kind of political support is often pivotal for governments trying ...

Interest Group Lobbying, Corporate Strategy and Environmental Policy

We study three corporate non-market strategies designed to in‡uence the lobbying behavior of other special interest groups concerning environmental and/or health and safety issues: 1) “astroturf,” in which the ...rm covertly subsidizes a group with similar views to lobby when it normally would not, 2) the “bearhug,” in which the ...rm overtly subsidizes the lobbying activities of another intere...

Corporate Lobbying Revisited

Motivating Management: Corporate Compliance in Environmental Protection*

ISSN 0265–8240 © 2005 UB Foundation Activities Inc., for and on behalf of the Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy and Blackwell Publishing Ltd. Blackwell Publishing, Ltd. Oxford, UK LAPO aw & Policy 0265-8240 © Blackwell Publishing Ltd. 2005 April 2005 27riginal Article Gunningham, Thornton & Kagan CORPORATE COMPLIANCE W & POLICY April 2005 Motivating Management: Corporate Compliance in Envi...

Lobbying against Environmental Regulation vs. Lobbying for Loopholes

We analyze the determinants of environmental policy when two firms engage in two types of lobbying against a restriction on allowed pollution: General lobbying increases the total amount of allowed pollution, which is beneficial for both firms. Private lobbying increases the individual pollution standard of the lobbying firm, but has a negative or zero effect on the allowed emissions of the com...