Chapter 17: Enviornment Flashcards
What are the 2 reasons why environmental policy is controversial
- creates winners and losers
- scientific uncertainty
What is the issue with rules when it comes to environmental policy
Rules are often uniform nationally (harder to meet rules with a larger population)
What is an example of the government and business conflicting with environmental policy
Clean air act took 13 years to revise
Environmental policy is subject to who’s control?
Federal Control
Federalism reinforces what type of politics
Adversarial Politics
Separation of Powers provide what in environmental policy
Provide points of access
What act requires an environmental impact statement
National Environmental Policy Act of 1969
What is to be documented in the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969
Document that the government must evaluate the consequences of an activity that must affect the quality of human enviornment
True or False: the National Environmental Policy Act requires specific action to be taken
False: Just need to write a statment
Who passed the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969
Passed by Congress with overwhelming support
What happens to the progression of environmental projects
Numerous Lawsuits delay them
What are the 4 reasons why a coherent environmental policy is so difficult to create
- many environmental problems are not clear-cut
- goals are often unclear- public opinion is changeable
- means of achieving goals are complicated- economic cost
- command and control strategy
What is command and control stategy
An approach to achieving environmental goals that rely on issuing rules and enforcing them in court
In environmental policy, what is an example of client politics
Agricultural pesticides
In environmental policy, the endangered species is an example of what politics
Entrepreneurial Politics
