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Why is Pollution from U.S. Manufacturing Declining? The Roles of Environmental Regulation, Productivity, and Trade Notes: This figure plots the relationship between plant-level total factor productivity and NOx pollution per unit of out- put for US manufacturing in 1990. The plant-level productivity...
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