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This 5-page paper discusses several issues pertaining to the environment, including federal and state government approaches toward environmental policy, and use of cost-benefit analysis and cost-effectiveness tools toward controlling emissions. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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the problem by passing legislation in order to force industry to "clean up its act," so to speak. The problem with such regulations, however, is that they are broad and
very vague. They have to be - mandates have to apply to all 50 states. As a result, state governments are responsible for stepping in and translating the federal mandates
to their own particular specifications. In his 1999 report, "Simplify, Simplify: Alternative Permitting at the State Level," Christopher Hartwell decries what he
terms as a "one size fits all" mentality when it comes to environmental regulation at the federal level (Hartwell, 1999). His criticism is that the federal government tends to issue
"prescriptive regulations applied across industries," he notes (Hartwell, 1999). This is particularly true in the area of reducing pollution and harmful emissions (Hartwell, 1999). While federal policies require industries obtain
permits demonstrating environmental compliance at their emission sources, Hartwell believes that permits "use a proxy goal rather than tangible environmental improvements as a barometer of success" (Hartwell, 1999). The U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) supported this single-minded approach believing that permitting was the easiest and simplest way to enforce certification of environmental norms (Hartwell, 1999). As it has turned out,
however, environmental issue vary so widely from state to state, that one single national permit simply cant solve the problem (Hartwell, 1999). Hartwell notes that the "actual performance of permits
. . . has been less than impressive in meeting the goal of environmental protection" (Hartwell, 1999). It could be said, that
based on Hartwells assessment, the federal government is responsible for issuing general edicts on how to clean up the environment, while state governments attempt to pound out actual solutions on
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