Earnhart, Dietrich H.

Pollution Limits and Polluters' Efforts to Comply : The Role of Government Monitoring and Enforcement. - 1 online resource (332 pages)

Intro -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Scope of Analysis: Sample of Regulated Facilities -- 3. Summary of Research Questions and Review of Previous Studies -- 4. Discharge Limits Imposed on Discharging Facilities -- 5. Environmental Behavior: Facilities' Efforts to Comply with Discharge Limits -- 6. Environmental Performance: Facilities' Discharges and Compliance with Discharge Limits -- 7. Regulatory Efforts to Induce Compliance with Discharge Limits -- 8. Effect of Government Interventions on Environmental Behavior -- 9. Effect of Government Interventions on Environmental Performance -- 10. Summary, Conclusions, Policy Implications, and Future Research -- Notes -- References -- Index.

This book integrates economics and legal perspectives to examine the impact of government strategies for monitoring and enforcing environmental protection laws. It closely examines industrial facilities' compliance with regulatory obligations stemming from the implementation of the Clean Water Act (CWA) to explore the success of policies such as this.

9780804777605


Chemical industry -- Waste disposal -- United States.
United States. -- Federal Water Pollution Control Act.
Water -- Pollution -- Government policy -- United States.
Water -- Pollution -- Law and legislation -- United States.


Electronic books.

KF3790

344.73046343

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