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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785394503321

Autore

Marcus Alfred A (Alfred Allen), <1950->

Titolo

Reinventing environmental regulation : lessons from Project XL / / Alfred A. Marcus [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, : Taylor and Francis, 2002

ISBN

1-280-68698-7

9786613663924

1-136-52599-8

1-936331-31-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (253 pages)

Altri autori (Persone)

GeffenDonald A

SextonKen

Disciplina

363.7/056/0973

363.73630973

Soggetti

Environmental management - United States

Industries - Environmental aspects - United States

Environmental law - Law and legislation - United States

Pollution - Law and legislation - United States

Factory and trade waste - Law and legislation - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Reinventing Environmental Regulation; Copyright; Contents; Chapter 1. Environmental Policy in Transition; Chapter 2. Quid Pro Quo and the Birth of Project XL; Chapter 3. Conflicting Goals; Chapter 4. Complicating Factors; Chapter 5. Drafting the 3M Proposal; Chapter 6. Gaining EPA Support for the Agreement; Chapter 7. Trying To Overcome Deadlock: The Practical Impediments; Chapter 8. Intel, Merck, and Weyerhaeuser: Three XL Projects That Gained Approval; Chapter 9. Comparing the Approved Projects with 3M's Proposal; Chapter 10. Roadblocks to Cooperative Solutions

Chapter 11. Creating a Platform for Experiments; Appendix A. The Comparable Actions Test; Appendix B. Next Steps at 3M-Hutchinson; Appendix C. A More Unambiguous Definition of Superior Environmental Performance?; References; Acknowledgements; Index; About the Authors



Sommario/riassunto

Project XL (eXcellence and Leadership) was the flagship effort by the Clinton administration for 'cleaner, cheaper, and smarter' regulation. Under Project XL, business promised better performance in exchange for a regulatory approach focused more on results than means, with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) measuring pollution reduction across rather than at individual sources within a facility. Reinventing Environmental Regulation is a compelling account of the breakdown in negotiations to implement Project XL at a tape manufacturing plant of 3M, a company widely recognized as environ