title: The Empirical Relationship between Mining Industry Development and Environmental Pollution in China.
abstract: This study uses a vector autoregression (VAR) model to analyze changes in pollutants among different mining industries and related policy in China from 2001 to 2014. The results show that: (1) because the pertinence of standards for mining waste water and waste gas emissions are not strong and because the maximum permissible discharge pollutant concentrations in these standards are too high, ammonia nitrogen and industrial sulfur dioxide discharges increased in most mining industries; (2) chemical oxygen demand was taken as an indicator of sewage treatment in environmental protection plans; hence, the chemical oxygen demand discharge decreased in all mining industries; (3) tax reduction policies, which are only implemented in coal mining and washing and extraction of petroleum and natural gas, decreased the industrial solid waste discharge in these two mining industries.
authors.affiliation: School of Humanities and Economics Management, China University of Geosciences, Beijing 100083, China. ligerui2008@126.com.|Key Laboratory of Carrying Capacity Assessment for Resource and Environment, Ministry of Land and Resources, Beijing 100083, China. ligerui2008@126.com.
authors.forename: Gerui
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: School of Humanities and Economics Management, China University of Geosciences, Beijing 100083, China. leiyalin@cugb.edu.cn.|Key Laboratory of Carrying Capacity Assessment for Resource and Environment, Ministry of Land and Resources, Beijing 100083, China. leiyalin@cugb.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Yalin
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Lei
authors.affiliation: School of Humanities and Economics Management, China University of Geosciences, Beijing 100083, China. gejianping@cugb.edu.cn.|Key Laboratory of Carrying Capacity Assessment for Resource and Environment, Ministry of Land and Resources, Beijing 100083, China. gejianping@cugb.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Jianping
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ge
authors.affiliation: School of Humanities and Economics Management, China University of Geosciences, Beijing 100083, China. wusanmang@sina.com.|Key Laboratory of Carrying Capacity Assessment for Resource and Environment, Ministry of Land and Resources, Beijing 100083, China. wusanmang@sina.com.
authors.forename: Sanmang
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Wu
mesh_terms: D057919:Biological Oxygen Demand Analysis; D002681:China; D003032:Coal Mining; D004787:Environmental Pollution; D019652:Extraction and Processing Industry / Q000639:trends*; D007220:Industrial Waste; D007221:Industry; D017059:Models, Econometric; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D013458:Sulfur Dioxide; D062065:Wastewater
chemical_list: D007220:Industrial Waste; D013458:Sulfur Dioxide; D062065:Wastewater
keywords: China; VAR; environmental pollution; mining industry; policy