Government Environmental Audit,Media Supervision and Environmental Pollution
In line with the new development philisophy,government environmental auditing has become an important supervision mechanism for ecological civilization.Based on the panel data of 28 provincial-level local governments in China,this paper empirically tests the impact of government environmental audit and media supervision on environmental pollution.Our study found that(1)government environmental audit and environmental pollution are significantly negatively correlated,indicating that government environmental audit can significantly promote environmental improvement;(2)media supervision is significantly negatively correlated with environmental pollution,indicating that media supervision has a significant inhibitory effect on environmental pollution;(3)media supervision plays a positive regulatory role in the improvement of environmental pollution through government environmental audits,that is,the greater the media supervision,the more it can promote the government environmental auditing role in pollution control;(4)further research shows that the effect of government environmental auditing is more significant in areas with less fiscal pressure,greater accountability through auditing,and poorer legal environment.Based on this,this paper puts forward policy recommendations on strengthening government environmental audit,boosting ecological environment quality,strengthening the application of environmental audit results,improving the audit rectification and accountability mechanism,making use of the advantages of news media and giving better play to the function of audit oversight.
government environmental auditmedia zupervisionenvironmental pollution
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