This paper explores the impact of technological innovation on the quality of the environment during the period 1985-2014, using the environmental footprint (EF) as an environmental proxy for selected Asian nations. The findings show that technological innovation in relation to EF is negative and significant, indicating that a one-point increase in technological change leads to a decrease of 0.097 per cent in environmental deterioration. In addition, the granger causality test Dumitrescu-Hurlin (DH) indicated that technological advancement has a bi-directional relation with EF. Moreover, the study of variance decomposition showed that EF is strongly influenced by technological innovation. The policy implications of this study suggest that leveraging policy instruments and incentives should be pursued to improve technological innovation toward ensuring a sustainable environment.