Managing Green Mandates
Subtitle: Local Rigors of U.S. Environmental Regulation
Publisher: AEI Press; AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies
Published: January 25, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 52
ISBN-13: 9780815702337
Subjects: Central government policies; Political Science; Environmental Studies; Politics/International Relations; USA; Environmental Conservation & Protection - General; Government - State & Provincial; Public Policy - General; Political Science / General; Costs; Economic aspects; Economic policy; Environmental economics; Environmental policy; United States
Description: "Federal policies have made great progress protecting the environment. But those policies sometimes have imposed inordinate costs on local governments." "Managing Green Mandates describes various federal environmental directives that are ill-suited to conditions at the local level and that compel communities to spend their revenues on reducing relatively minor risks to public health. While the federal government has imposed far-reaching requirements on local authorities, it is offering them less aid to comply with its increasingly stringent standards. The burden of those underfunded mandates can create further economic hardships for many fiscally overextended municipalities."--Jacket.