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Enforcing the Law: The Case of the Clean Water Acts
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Comments/Reviews
Description: This is the most comprehensive analysis yet available of EPA enforcement of the Clean Water Act and its amendments. The book uses extensive EPA data, including a survey of EPA and state-level environmental officials, to examine enforcement from the perspective of the enforcement personnel. Emphasis is on what is done, how it is done, and why. By combining detailed documentation of regulatory implementation with surveys of the views of federal and state officials, industry representatives, and environmental activists, this study illuminates a process of pragmatic enforcement--that is, the way bureaucrats actually do their jobs.
The book
--examines the operation of pollution control policy over two decades and several presidential administrations;
--shows the pragmatic nature of regulatory enforcement, mixing adherence with due discretion;
--considers the effectiveness of both punitive and incentive-based policies in different contexts.
Selected Contents:
Introduction
1. The Water Quality Problem: A Study in Diversity
2. The Institutional Setting
3. Pragmatic Enforcement
4. Bureaucrats and Attitudes: The Seeds of Discretion, Amelia Rouse and Robert Wright
5. Bureaucratic Discretion and Hierarchical Political Control, Susan Hunter, Richard W. Waterman, and Robert Wright
6. Enforcement at the State Level: Primacy and State Organizational Structures
7. Explaining Variations in NPDES Enforcement
8. Water Outcomes: The Neglected Arena
9. Conclusions and Recommendations
Review(s): "The authors use extensive EPA data, including a survey of federal and state level environmental officials, to examine the enforcement from the perspective of government personnel. By combining the testimony with documentation, the study illuminates a process of pragmatic enforcement." -- Abstracts of Public Administrtation, Development, and Environment
    
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