Environmental Crime Tort Laws Are Essay

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In a somewhat clandestinely released report prepared for the Department of Energy, Advanced Resources International measures the economic effects of the regulations recommended by environmental groups." (Loris, 1) This type of willful hostility toward the environmental movement, ironically, provides as explicit a case for the use of hard-and-fast regulatory standards for the administration of industry practices as any form of advocacy, demonstrating the extent to which these entities will go to undermine efforts at protection.

The fundamental weakness of regulation in its current form is its susceptibility to manipulation. Such modes as the provision of emission credits literally allows companies to make an active decision regarding the economic implications of tax credits and penalties. It is rare that such a company will resolve that it would be benefited by reducing its emissions.
Most companies instead tend to find that it is more worthwhile to absorb the cost of penalty or lost credit, diminishing the value of such regulations altogether.

Nonetheless, the creation of emission and pollutant standards which are economically rational but which nonetheless are complimented by aggressively pursued and meaningful penalties will be the best way to achieve systemic improvements in the protection of the environment. As we resolved in the discussion on torts, criminal and court proceedings are deeply strengthened by the institutional presence of meaningful regulations and parameters for enforcement, demonstrating to would-be corporate polluters that there are real consequences for their actions.

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