Identifying environmental and health threats in unconventional oil and gas violations: evidence from Pennsylvania compliance reports

doi:10.1007/s11356-021-17500-8

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	Identifying environmental and health threats in unconventional oil and gas violations: evidence from Pennsylvania compliance reports
	Bi, Dan 1; Guo, Ju-E 1; Zhao, Erlong 1; Sun, Shaolong 1; Wang, Shouyang 2
	2021-11-19
发表期刊	ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH
ISSN	0944-1344
页码	15
摘要	With unconventional oil and gas booming in commercial development, its inevitable environmental damage has aroused the public's vigilance. To support the regulation improvement and early-warning system building, it is of great need to learn the regular patterns in recurrent violations both for practitioners and governments. In this respect, we utilized the "Oil and Gas Compliance Report" from the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection from 2000 to 2019, a total of 5737 violation records, to dig out the historical violation patterns. Through LDA (Latent Dirichlet Allocation) analysis combined with the decision tree model, our research attained the following conclusions: first, we find that the LDA themes of violations as "Erosion and sediment" and "Water pollution" are critical factors for "Failed" enforcement results. Therefore, policymakers and practitioners should pay more attention to those two types of accidents. Second, it is noted that counties are also one of the essential features that matter the enforcement results. Third, we need to consider the role of economic punishment dialectically, while it is not a significant feature for successful enforcement results. That is to say, a monetary penalty may not necessarily improve the effectiveness of the company's measurements.
关键词	Unconventional oil and gas Text mining LDA Environmental violation Decision tree Environment pollution
DOI	10.1007/s11356-021-17500-8
收录类别	SCI
语种	英语
资助项目	National Natural Science Foundation of China[71774130] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China[71988101] ; Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities[xpt012020022]
WOS研究方向	Environmental Sciences & Ecology
WOS类目	Environmental Sciences
WOS记录号	WOS:000720254000003
出版者	SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
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文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://ir.amss.ac.cn/handle/2S8OKBNM/59578
专题	中国科学院数学与系统科学研究院
通讯作者	Sun, Shaolong
作者单位	1.Xi An Jiao Tong Univ, Sch Management, Xian 710049, Peoples R China 2.Chinese Acad Sci, Acad Math & Syst Sci, Beijing 100190, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Bi, Dan,Guo, Ju-E,Zhao, Erlong,et al. Identifying environmental and health threats in unconventional oil and gas violations: evidence from Pennsylvania compliance reports[J]. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH,2021:15.
APA	Bi, Dan,Guo, Ju-E,Zhao, Erlong,Sun, Shaolong,&Wang, Shouyang.(2021).Identifying environmental and health threats in unconventional oil and gas violations: evidence from Pennsylvania compliance reports.ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH,15.
MLA	Bi, Dan,et al."Identifying environmental and health threats in unconventional oil and gas violations: evidence from Pennsylvania compliance reports".ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH (2021):15.