ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on fully testing the model of trust in the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). To simplify this process, it highlights different aspects of the model by exploring the determinants of trust in the EPA, analyzing a non-experimental model of support for fracking, and examining the sub-population effects that the experimental treatments might have on support for fracking. Combined, these models will provide a more complete understanding of the determinants of trust in the EPA. The chapter also focuses on the influence of demographic characteristics. It models the relationship of self-identifying as a female with trust in the EPA, but finds that there is not a significant difference between males and females in their trust in the EPA. The final demographic characteristic explored is an individual's age. The chapter clusters the respondents into four age ranges, and compares those who are older against the youngest range. With limited exceptions, there is little evidence of behavioral trust for the EPA.
