Measuring Enforcement’s Value: One Step at a Time

August 2011
Citation:
41
ELR 10689
Issue
8
Author
Eric V. Schaeffer

How well are environmental laws in the United States being enforced, and what difference does that make to the quality of our air and water? Professors Flatt and Collins work hard to find the answers in Environmental Enforcement in Dire Straits: There Is No Protection for Nothing and No Data for Free, but run into some familiar roadblocks.

Eric V. Schaeffer is Director of the Environmental Integrity Project.

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