Federal policies have made great progress protecting the
environment. But the policies sometimes have imposed inordinate
costs on local governments. Managing Green Mandates describes how
various federal environmental directives do not suit diverse
conditions at the local level, and compel local communities to
spend their revenues on reducing relatively minor risks to the
public health. While policymakers have thrown far-reaching
requirements at the feet of local authorities, the federal
government is providing them less aid to comply with the
increasingly stringent standards. The burden of these underfunded
mandates can further disadvantage many overtaxed municipalities.
Pietro Nivola is a senior fellow in the Governmental Studies
program at the Brookings Institution. He is the author of The Laws
of the Landscape: How Politics Shape Cities in Europe and America
(Brookings 1999). Jon Shields is a graduate student in the
Department of Government and Foreign Affairs at the University of
Virginia.
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