TU Enforcement in Environmental Regulation Discussion

Enforcement in Environmental Regulation Your comments will be graded on how well they meet the Discussion Requirements posted under “Before You Begin.” Has strong enforcement of environmental health regulations worked to reduce industrial emissions? Explain the rationale of your answers and support them with readings and examples taken from the literature. Resources: Required Reading Carruth, R. S., & Goldstein, B. D. (2014). Chapter 3: Clean Air Act. In Environmental health law: An introduction (pp. 41–76). San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, Wiley. Carruth, R. S., & Goldstein, B. D. (2014). Chapter 4: Clean Water Act. In Environmental health law: An introduction (pp. 77–106). San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, Wiley. Cohen, E., & Watkins, T. (2014, February 20). West Virginia asks feds to study possible health effects of chemical spill. CNN. Retrieved from http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/19/health/west-virginia-water/ Glucker, A. N., Driessen, P. P. J., Kolhoff, A., & Runhaar, H. A. C. (2013). Public participation in environmental impact assessment: why, who and how? Environmental Impact Assessment Review, 43, 104–111. Helbert, S. (2014, January 29). How industrial chemical regulation failed West Virginia. NPR. Retrieved from http://www.npr.org/2014/01/29/268201454/how-industrialchemical-regulation-failed-west-virginia Jed, K. (2014, May 22). EPA tells Exide its lead emissions violated federal law. KPCC. Retrieved from http://www.scpr.org/news/2014/05/22/44330/epa-tells-exideits-lead-emissions-violated-federa/ Jaramillo, P. and Muller, N. Z. (2016). Air pollution emissions and damages from energy production in the U.S.: 2002– 2011. Energy Policy, 90, 202 – 221. Available in the Trident Online Library. Savoia, E., Stoto, M. A., Gupta, R., Wright, N., & Viswanath, K. (2015). Public response to the 2014 chemical spill in West Virginia: Knowledge, opinions and behaviours. BMC Public Health, 15. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. (2017). Clean Air Act overview. Retrieved from https://www.epa.gov/lawsregulations/basics-regulatory-process U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. (2017). Clean Air Act (CAA) compliance monitoring. Retrieved fromhttps://www.epa.gov/compliance/clean-air-act-caa-compliancemonitoring U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. (2019). Summary of the Clean Water Act. Retrieved fromhttps://www.epa.gov/lawsregulations/summary-clean-water-act U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. (2019). Clean Water Act (CWA) compliance monitoring. Retrieved fromhttps://www.epa.gov/compliance/clean-water-act-cwacompliance-monitoring Practical Ways to Form Evaluation Questions Explain the difference between an evaluation question and a data collection question. What makes a good evaluation question? Resources: Click to view a PowerPoint presentation of some Evaluation Questions Key Concepts. Click the link for a PowerPoint presentation on some key concepts associated with Data Collection and Data Analysis. Peersman, G. (2014). Overview: Data Collection and Analysis Methods in Impact Evaluation. Methodological Briefs: Impact Evaluation 10. Accessed via https://www.unicefirc.org/publications/pdf/brief_10_data_collection_analysis_eng.pdf University of Kansas (2018). The community tool box. Operations in Evaluating Community Interventions. Chapter 37, Section 1 – Choosing Questions and planning the evaluation. Retrieved from https://ctb.ku.edu/en/table-ofcontents/evaluate/evaluate-community-interventions/chooseevaluation-questions/main University of Kansas (2018). The community tool box. Operations in Evaluating Community Interventions. Chapter 37, Section 4 – Selecting an Appropriate Design for the evaluation. Retrieved from https://ctb.ku.edu/en/table-ofcontents/evaluate/evaluate-community-interventions/experimentaldesign/main