Environmental+Policy


 * __Environmental Policy__**__:__

Foreign and Military Policy: Environmental Protection Agency: mission is to protect health and safeguard natural environment.
 * Environmental Impact Statement** must be written to report the effects of a project on the environment. If costs are low in environmental policy, people need less concrete benefit. If costs are high, such as a hike in the gasoline tax, people demand to see the use of their taxes in things like highways, buses, and a reduced federal deficit.
 * Client Politics**: an organized group gets a benefit while unorganized public pays. Ex- agricultural pesticides, organized farmers are the interest group.
 * Majoritarian Politics:** //unorganized// public benefits at its own expense. pollution from automobiles- **clean air act** of 1970 set auto emissions standards, was revised in 1990.
 * Interest Group Politics**: two //organized// groups with a material stake in the outcome fight over who will pay and who will benefit.
 * Entrepreneurial Politics**- //unorganized// public benefits from expense of well organized group.Example- Global Warming
 * Command-and-Control Strategy**: A strategy to improve air and water quality, involving the setting of detailed pollution standards and rules.