Pollution limits and polluters' efforts to comply the role of Ggvernment monitoring and enforcement - Earnhart, Dietrich; Glicksman, Robert L. (Stanford University Press, 2011)
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This book integrates the fields of economics and law to empirically examine compliance with regulatory obligations under the Clean Water Act (CWA). It examines four dimensions of federal water pollution control policy in the United States: limits imposed on industrial facilities' pollution discharges; facilities' efforts to comply with pollution limits, identified as ""environmental behavior""; facilities' success at controlling their discharges to comply with pollution limits, identified as ""environmental performance""; and regulators' efforts to induce compliance via inspections and e