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Enforcement of Water Pollution Control Law

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2024

Lettie M. Wenner
Lettie M. Wenner*
Affiliation:
Northern Illinois University
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Pollution control today is a favorite topic for campaign promises by American politicians. If the present public interest in the environment and problems of overpopulation continues, it may one day replace motherhood as the single safest subject for political rhetoric. Everyone, including polluters, is against pollution. But once that philosophical belief has been passionately embraced, the problem of achieving this highly desirable public policy goal remains. On that subject many politicians and all polluters are much less articulate. So many different opinions exist as to the best method for achieving air pollution control, water pollution abatement, and sanitary, efficient solid waste disposal, that one begins to understand why it is that little progress has been made despite the seemingly universal belief in a clean environment.

Type
Research Article
Information
Law & Society Review , Volume 6 , Issue 4 , May 1972 , pp. 481 - 507
Copyright
Copyright © 1972 The Law and Society Association

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Footnotes

AUTHOR'S NOTE: This research was made possible by a grant from the National Institute of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice of the U.S. Department of Justice. The substance of the findings was originally presented at the Sixty-seventh Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, September, 1971. I am grateful for the helpful cooperation of many officials in the Federal Water Quality Administration of the Department of the Interior (now part of the Environmental Protection Agency) both in Washington, D.C., and in the Chicago regional office, as well as for the assistance of many state enforcement officials, especially those in the Division of Environmental Protection of the Department of Natural Resources in Madison, Wisconsin. I am also grateful for comments and suggestions from several political scientists: Joel B. Grossman; Victor Eugene Flango; Wilma Krauss; Stuart S. Nagel; Leslie L. Roos, Jr.; Robert Russell; Ronald E. Weber; and Manfred W. Wenner.

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