Duan, Yuetong2018-09-192018-09-192018http://hdl.handle.net/10393/38146https://doi.org/10.20381/ruor-22401This paper focuses on how corporate political strategies at the industry level influence salient political issues. In the context of recent climate change policy debates of the United States, I investigate the impact of lobbying on climate change. The theoretical model develops the claim that lobbying expenditures and activities of the clean industry has a negative impact on CO2 emissions, while that of the polluting industry have a positive impact. I test the hypothesis in the whole industry, which shows that lobbying expenditures and activities have a negative impact on CO2 emissions. I use a panel data regression to analyze CO2 emissions in the U.S. at the state-level from 2006 to 2017. The results are consistent with my hypothesis, suggesting that clean industries have a stronger negative lobbying effects on CO2 emissions than dirty ones.enResearch Paper