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Record Nr.

UNINA9910789689003321

Autore

Earnhart Dietrich

Titolo

Pollution Limits and Polluters' Efforts to Comply [[electronic resource] ] : The Role of Government Monitoring and Enforcement

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Palo Alto, : Stanford University Press, 2011

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (332 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

GlicksmanRobert L.

Disciplina

344.7304/6343

363.73

Soggetti

Chemical industry - Waste disposal - United States

Chemical industry -- Waste disposal -- United States

United States

United States. Federal Water Pollution Control Act

Water - Pollution - Government policy - United States

Water - Pollution - Law and legislation - United States

Water -- Pollution -- Law and legislation -- United States

Water -- Pollution --Government policy -- United States

Law - U.S

Law, Politics & Government

Public Health Legislation - U.S

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

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 Performance10. Summary, Conclusions, Policy Implications, and Future Research; Notes;



References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book integrates the fields of economics and law to empirically examine compliance with regulatory obligations under the Clean Water Act (CWA).  It examines four dimensions of federal water pollution control policy in the United States: limits imposed on industrial facilities' pollution discharges; facilities' efforts to comply with pollution limits, identified as ""environmental behavior""; facilities' success at controlling their discharges to comply with pollution limits, identified as ""environmental performance""; and regulators' efforts to induce compliance via inspections and enforc