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Data from the European Pollutant Release and Transfer Register reveal the environmental impact of these organizational constraints. In areas where more firms are credit constrained and weakly managed, industrial facilities systematically emit more CO<jats:sub>2<\/jats:sub> and pollutants. A counterfactual analysis shows that credit constraints and weak management have respectively kept CO<jats:sub>2<\/jats:sub> emissions 4.5% and 2.3% above the levels that would have prevailed without such constraints. 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