Evaluating fairness in environmental regulatory enforcement

Failed Promises: Evaluating The Federal Government's Response to Environmental Justice

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 173-204

  Konisky, David M ^a   Reenock, Christopher ^b  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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