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Environmental Policy Graduate Seminar
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EVS
6937
Online Course
WH129
Graduate
Seminar in Environmental Policy
Session 7
A Regulatory Thicket: Toxic and Hazardous Substances
Class Topics:
Readings:
Chapter 7 of Walter Ronsenbaum's Environmental Politics and Policy. (10th Ediction), Washington, DC: CQ Press.
Homework Assignment:
- When is enough environmental regulation actually "too much?"
- Who ultimately resists additional environmental regulation?
- Who oversees the regulators and what are the economic consequences of "cradle to grave regulation"?
- What is meant by the term "regulatory thicket"?
- What are the environmental and economic risks entailed when public policy becomes entangled in the regulatory thicket?
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