Although we have had the Toxic Release Inventory (TRI) for nearly 25 years, no one has captured its workings, impact, and meaning like Kraft, Stephan and Abel. Drawing on a powerful mix of their own surveys, analyses of TRI data, and a vast literature, the authors show how the TRI is used now as well as how it could vastly improve. For anyone wishing to understand the promise and limits of information disclosure in environmental policy, this book stands in a class by itself.
Daniel Press, Olga T. Griswold Professor of Environmental Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz
Coming Clean does a wonderful job showing how, when, and why the provision of information about pollution releases in the EPA's Toxics Release Inventory can change behavior. Using original survey data and new statistical analyses, the authors illustrate how facilities and communities vary in the degree of their response to information about environmental releases. Regulatory scholars and policymakers interested in how information provision works should read this innovative book.
James T. Hamilton, Charles S. Sydnor Professor of Public Policy, Duke University, author of Regulation through Revelation
Coming Clean is a model of thorough scholarship, sound empirical research, and well-informed policy analysis. Kraft, Stephan, and Abel have demonstrated that social science research may indeed contribute to our ability to devise better solutions to environmental problems. This book will become the definitive work on the strengths and limitations of information disclosure as an environmental policy strategy.
Daniel Fiorino, Executive in Residence, School of Public Affairs, American University; Director, Center for Environmental Policy
2012 Lynton Keith Caldwell Prize, given by the Science, Technology, and Environmental Politics Section of the American Political Science Association
