IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/rff/dpaper/dp-01-29.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Regulating Government

Author

Listed:
  • Probst, Katherine

    (Resources for the Future)

  • Davies, J. Clarence

    (Resources for the Future)

Abstract

Federal, state, and local governments are major polluters of the environment. They account for more than 7% of SO2 air pollution emissions and more than 5% of all NO2 air emissions in the United States. Public entities are more likely than private ones to be in violation of the Clean Water Act, and they account for two-thirds of all major facilities in significant noncompliance with the act. Department of Energy nuclear sites are the worst hazardous waste problems in the nation. A lack of adequate data makes it difficult to fully characterize the extent of pollution caused by government agencies and to compare the performance of the public and private sectors. There are many reasons why government pollution is difficult to regulate. The paper discusses political dimensions, legal problems, resource constraints, psychological dimensions, and public opinion. Further research is urgently needed, and the paper delineates areas that require more investigation.

Suggested Citation

  • Probst, Katherine & Davies, J. Clarence, 2001. "Regulating Government," RFF Working Paper Series dp-01-29, Resources for the Future.
    • Handle: RePEc:rff:dpaper:dp-01-29
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.rff.org/RFF/documents/RFF-DP-01-29.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Robert Durant, 2010. "National Defense, Environmental Regulation, and Overhead Democracy: A View from the “Greening” of the U.S. Military," Public Organization Review, Springer, vol. 10(3), pages 223-244, September.

    More about this item

    Keywords

    pollution control; federal facilities; regulation; intergovernmental relations;
    All these keywords.

    NEP fields

    This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:rff:dpaper:dp-01-29. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Resources for the Future (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/rffffus.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.