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What Lawmakers Can Learn From Large-Scale Ecology, Fred P. Bosselman Feb 2002

What Lawmakers Can Learn From Large-Scale Ecology, Fred P. Bosselman

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When Voluntary, Incentive-Based Controls Fail: Structuring A Regulatory Response To Agricultural Nonpoint Source Water Pollution, Douglas R. Williams Jan 2002

When Voluntary, Incentive-Based Controls Fail: Structuring A Regulatory Response To Agricultural Nonpoint Source Water Pollution, Douglas R. Williams

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This article is part of the Symposium, Sustainable Agriculture: Food for the Future. Recognizing that, to date, farms had largely escaped regulation under the Clean Water Act, and that agricultural nonpoint source pollution is a leading contributor to impaired water quality, this article advocates for a regulatory response to such pollution. It considers existing programs to control nonpoint source pollution and demonstrates that they are inadequate. The article makes three recommendations: (1) an increased federal regulatory presence is needed; (2) the costs of implementing nonpoint source controls should be distributed in a pragmatic way that recognizes the extraordinary organizational presence …