Electronic copy available at: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3213317 1 Environmental Compliance Cost and Productivity Growth in US Manufacturing 1 By Abbas A. Taheri 2 University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh (Fox Valley Campus) 1478 Midway Road Menasha, WI 54952 Phone: 920-832-2651 Fax: 920-832-2674 Email: ataheri@uwc.edu AND Rodney Stevenson 3 Graduate School of Business University of Wisconsin-Madison 975 University Ave. Madison, WI 53715 Phone: 608-263-4992 Fax: 608-284-0531 Email: rstevenson@bus.wisc.edu July 2018 2 Professor of economics at the Department of Economics, College of Business at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh. 3 Professor of Emeritus at the College of Business at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. 1 This research was funded by a summer grant from UW-Madison Graduate School of Business during the summer of 2000.