RETRACTED: Safety and environmental inputs investment effect analysis: Empirical study of selected coal mining firms in China

This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (http://www.elsevier.com/locate/withdrawalpolicy).This article has been retracted at the request of the corresponding author Junice Dzonzi-Undi.The corresponding author also wishes to admit sole responsibility and to state that the co-author was not aware of this submission.The article is a near duplication of a paper that has already been published in China Population, Resources and Environment, Vol. 25, No. 11 (2015) 169–176. d.wanfangdata.com.cn/Periodical/zgrkzyyhj201511022. One of the conditions of submission of a paper for publication is that authors declare explicitly that the paper is not under consideration for publication elsewhere. As such this article represents an abuse of the scientific publishing system. The scientific community takes a very strong view on this matter and apologies are offered to readers of the journal that this was not detected during the submission process.