Utilizing ten years of panel data on 13,198 US commercial facilities, this study examines whether political contexts of facility location influences the amount of hazardous pollution facilities emit. Countering both the lay and academic perspectives which predict that a facility’s toxic emissions would increase in the conservatism of its political context, I find that emissions of hazardous pollution decline with the conservatism of the local community, where a facility is located. Such relationship between community conservatism and facility hazardous pollution is more salient when a facility is less embedded in the community and is located in an otherwise liberal state. I theorize that a strong sense of group identity and a narrow moral boundary associated with conservatism delineates why – contrary to our common beliefs – facilities would pollute less as the community becomes increasingly conservative.