Research Catalog

Title

Managing green mandates : local rigors of U.S. environmental regulation / Pietro S. Nivola, Jon A. Shields.

Author

Nivola, Pietro S.

Publication

Washington, D.C. : AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies, 2001.

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Additional Authors

Shields, Jon A.

Description

viii, 52 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

"Federal policies have made great progress protecting the environment. But those policies sometimes have imposed inordinate costs on local governments." "Managing Green Mandates describes various federal environmental directives that are ill-suited to conditions at the local level and that compel communities to spend their revenues on reducing relatively minor risks to public health. While the federal government has imposed far-reaching requirements on local authorities, it is offering them less aid to comply with its increasingly stringent standards. The burden of those underfunded mandates can create further economic hardships for many fiscally overextended municipalities."--Jacket.

Uniform Title

Project Muse UPCC books

Subject

• Environmental economics > United States
• Environmental policy > Economic aspects > United States
• Environmental policy > United States > Costs
• United States > Environmental aspects

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 42-52).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

One Size Does Not Fit All -- Zero Tolerance -- Adversarial Legalism -- Fiscal Hardships -- Good Intentions Gone Awry. The Genesis of Generic Treatment. Minimizing Risks. Adversarialism. "Shift and Shaft" Federalism -- Innovations -- Remaining Issues.

ISBN

0815702337 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2001003261

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library