Environmental Science and Sustainability

As an environmentalist, you are very interested in how economics plays a role in determining how many and what type of environmental laws are passed. There are many environmental laws that are determined by economic conditions.

Choose 1 environmental law to research, and give a detailed description of the law including the following:

• The date the law was passed
• Description of the law
  • What are the provisions of the law?
• Background information
  • What initiated the law?
  • Why was it passed?
• Economic impact generated by the law
  • What kinds of costs, fines, or economic benefits are associated with the law? Provide economic data to support this.
• Whether you feel that this particular environmental law has improved the environment or situation
  • Why or why not?