ENVR 2900 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Santa Barbara Channel, Conservation Law Foundation, Energy Star
18 Oct 2017
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Class #6 tool #4: environmental protection via economic incentives protect the environment via offering financial incentives and/or financial disincentives. Case examples: energy star; brownfields; pacific coast fisheries. All problems can"t be solved using only the other 3 tools. Case #1: in ma, there were 35000 sites with contamination in the early 80s. Contamination was spread via waterways, lust etc. (lust - leaking underground. 1998: ma passed brownfield act - to clean up contamination sites. Economic incentive: build housing once cleaned, provide jobs. Ecological benefits were considered as side-benefits (that"s why the law pas. Property assessment before it - assess contaminants (what sort, how long, h. Standards for contamination clean-up depend on how the property will be vs. children"s park) Cables were to bring hydropower from canada to new england. But conservation law foundation required the power company to pay m to c laying the underground cables.
