Pollution Limits and Pollutersa Efforts to Comply: The Role of Government Monitoring and Enforcement

by Dietrich Earnhart, Robert Glicksman, Robert L. Glicksman

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804762589
• ISBN13: 9780804762588
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: Stanford Economics and Finance
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"