Mary B Collins
Biographic Data
| ID | 3707975 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mary B Collins |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mary B |
| FAMILY NAME | Collins |
| SIGNATURE | COLLINS M B |
| AFFILIATIONS | SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2286-8575 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Competition, Chromium, and Contracts
The public procurement sector has a high impact on the environment including pollution from manufacturing. Competition is the primary way that the United States government ensures that the most efficient facilities receive contracts, but whether this competition leads to more, or less, pollution is unknown. We explore the impact of competition for contracts on contractor pollution in sectors that handle chromium, a toxic, yet necessary, component…
Assessing the quantity and toxicity of chemical releases from TRI facilities in Upstate New York
Targeted pollution management can significantly reduce toxic emissions while limiting adverse effects on employment in US manufacturing
Analyzing the relationship between employment and toxic emissions at over 25,000 US manufacturing facilities between 1998 and 2012 demonstrates that significant reductions in toxic pollution can be achieved without causing equivalent reductions in employment. Three simulations provide a comparison of the combined effects on toxic releases and employment of management strategies targeted at major polluters versus strategies that encompass a random…
Assessing residential socioeconomic factors associated with pollutant releases using EPA’s Toxic Release Inventory
NYenviroScreen
Characterizing disproportionality in facility-level toxic releases in US manufacturing, 1998–2012
The relationship between economic activity and environmental pollution is a topic of extensive research. Although a proportional relationship between the two is often the default assumption, emerging scholarship suggests that polluting releases are disproportionally distributed across units of production. This paper examines if proportionality or disproportionality best characterizes the production of toxic pollution in US manufacturing from 1998…
Hazardous air pollutant exposure as a contributing factor to Covid-19 mortality in the United States
To date, COVID-19 has claimed more than 100 000 American lives. Early inquiry suggests preexisting conditions are key risk factors contributing to COVID-19 mortality and air pollution exposure could exacerbate this relationship. Building on prior research linking deaths from respiratory viruses to air pollution exposures, we investigate how 2014 National Air Toxics Assessment hazardous air pollutants (HAPs) respiratory hazard quotient and respira…
Public money and private interests
Super emitters in the United States coal-fired electric utility industry
Environmental disproportionality research shows extreme differences in the production of environmental harm by what would seem to be similar producers. Although researchers have studied disproportionality among individual facilities in a given place or within a given industry, few assess such patterns at the corporate level. We conduct a disproportionality analysis of the generation of CO2 emissions in the United States coal-fired electric utilit…
Perceiving resilience
Satterfield, T., M. B. Collins, and B. Herr Harthorn. 2018. Perceiving resilience: understanding people’s intuitions about the qualities of air, water, and soil. Ecology and Society 23(4):47. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-10637-230447
Tee L. Guidotti. Health and sustainability
Linking ‘toxic outliers’ to environmental justice communities
Several key studies have found that a small minority of producers, polluting at levels far exceeding group averages, generate the majority of overall exposure to industrial toxics. Frequently, such patterns go unnoticed and are understudied outside of the academic community. To our knowledge, no research to date has systematically described the scope and extent of extreme variations in industrially based exposure estimates and sought to link ineq…
Risk-Based Targeting
Objectives. I assessed the distribution of relative health risk from industrial air pollution in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and the extent to which risk was disproportionately attributable to a minority of facilities. Methods. I spatially linked data on airborne emissions, health risk, and sociodemographics by census tract, coupling disproportionality measurements from 2 perspectives: the health risk borne by communities and the harms produced by indi…
Grave Injustice
Grave Injustice: The American Indian Repatriation Movement and NAGPRA. Kathleen S. Fine-Dare. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2002. 250 pp
Grave Injustice
Grave Injustice: The American Indian Repatriation Movement and NAGPRA. Kathleen S. Fine-Dare. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2002. 250 pp
Super emitters in the United States coal-fired electric utility industry
Environmental disproportionality research shows extreme differences in the production of environmental harm by what would seem to be similar producers. Although researchers have studied disproportionality among individual facilities in a given place or within a given industry, few assess such patterns at the corporate level. We conduct a disproportionality analysis of the generation of CO2 emissions in the United States coal-fired electric utilit…
Assessing the quantity and toxicity of chemical releases from TRI facilities in Upstate New York
NYenviroScreen
Risk-Based Targeting
Objectives. I assessed the distribution of relative health risk from industrial air pollution in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and the extent to which risk was disproportionately attributable to a minority of facilities. Methods. I spatially linked data on airborne emissions, health risk, and sociodemographics by census tract, coupling disproportionality measurements from 2 perspectives: the health risk borne by communities and the harms produced by indi…
Grave Injustice
Grave Injustice: The American Indian Repatriation Movement and NAGPRA. Kathleen S. Fine-Dare. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2002. 250 pp
Risk-Based Targeting
Objectives. I assessed the distribution of relative health risk from industrial air pollution in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and the extent to which risk was disproportionately attributable to a minority of facilities. Methods. I spatially linked data on airborne emissions, health risk, and sociodemographics by census tract, coupling disproportionality measurements from 2 perspectives: the health risk borne by communities and the harms produced by indi…
Linking ‘toxic outliers’ to environmental justice communities
Several key studies have found that a small minority of producers, polluting at levels far exceeding group averages, generate the majority of overall exposure to industrial toxics. Frequently, such patterns go unnoticed and are understudied outside of the academic community. To our knowledge, no research to date has systematically described the scope and extent of extreme variations in industrially based exposure estimates and sought to link ineq…
Tee L. Guidotti. Health and sustainability
Super emitters in the United States coal-fired electric utility industry
Environmental disproportionality research shows extreme differences in the production of environmental harm by what would seem to be similar producers. Although researchers have studied disproportionality among individual facilities in a given place or within a given industry, few assess such patterns at the corporate level. We conduct a disproportionality analysis of the generation of CO2 emissions in the United States coal-fired electric utilit…
Perceiving resilience
Satterfield, T., M. B. Collins, and B. Herr Harthorn. 2018. Perceiving resilience: understanding people’s intuitions about the qualities of air, water, and soil. Ecology and Society 23(4):47. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-10637-230447
Characterizing disproportionality in facility-level toxic releases in US manufacturing, 1998–2012
The relationship between economic activity and environmental pollution is a topic of extensive research. Although a proportional relationship between the two is often the default assumption, emerging scholarship suggests that polluting releases are disproportionally distributed across units of production. This paper examines if proportionality or disproportionality best characterizes the production of toxic pollution in US manufacturing from 1998…
Hazardous air pollutant exposure as a contributing factor to Covid-19 mortality in the United States
To date, COVID-19 has claimed more than 100 000 American lives. Early inquiry suggests preexisting conditions are key risk factors contributing to COVID-19 mortality and air pollution exposure could exacerbate this relationship. Building on prior research linking deaths from respiratory viruses to air pollution exposures, we investigate how 2014 National Air Toxics Assessment hazardous air pollutants (HAPs) respiratory hazard quotient and respira…
Public money and private interests
Assessing residential socioeconomic factors associated with pollutant releases using EPA’s Toxic Release Inventory
NYenviroScreen
Assessing the quantity and toxicity of chemical releases from TRI facilities in Upstate New York
Targeted pollution management can significantly reduce toxic emissions while limiting adverse effects on employment in US manufacturing
Analyzing the relationship between employment and toxic emissions at over 25,000 US manufacturing facilities between 1998 and 2012 demonstrates that significant reductions in toxic pollution can be achieved without causing equivalent reductions in employment. Three simulations provide a comparison of the combined effects on toxic releases and employment of management strategies targeted at major polluters versus strategies that encompass a random…
Competition, Chromium, and Contracts
The public procurement sector has a high impact on the environment including pollution from manufacturing. Competition is the primary way that the United States government ensures that the most efficient facilities receive contracts, but whether this competition leads to more, or less, pollution is unknown. We explore the impact of competition for contracts on contractor pollution in sectors that handle chromium, a toxic, yet necessary, component…
Business (9 works) · Environmental Justice and Health Disparities (9 works) · Economics (6 works) · Environmental Science (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Air Quality and Health Impacts (4 works) · Engineering (4 works) · Environmental health (4 works) · Environmental planning (4 works) · Environmental resource management (4 works)