Indirect Regulation” of Environmental Hazards Through the Provision of Information to The Public

Title III of the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986 seeks to reduce the risks of chemical accidents through a strategy of indirect regulation that relies on providing the public with information about chemical hazards. For this strategy to be effective, citizens must aggressively utilize the information provided to monitor industrial practices and press for risk reduction. Since prior research suggests it is very difficult to evoke the degree of citizen action that would be required to make a strategy of indirect regulation successful, and since the federal legislation provided no funds for implementation, there is a question of whether the structures set up by Title III are sufficient to achieve its objectives. This article reports the results of anational study that examined selected aspects of the implementation of Title III in an effort to assess the likely outcome of its attempt at indirect regulation. Our focus is on the degree to which the Title III‐mandated Local Emergency Planning Committees are pursuing policies that are likely to get the necessary information to citizens and foster community debate on hazardous materials issues

Action (physics · Business · Economics · Hazardous waste · Legislation · Outcome (game theory · Political science · Public relations · Set (abstract data type · Superfund · Computer Science · Disaster Management and Resilience · Engineering · Law · Public Administration · Risk and Safety Analysis · Risk Perception and Management

• Environmental Information Disclosure Programs

  Open Access•Mark Stephan•Social Science Quarterly•2002

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• Evidence and Policy and Naming and Shaming

  Ray Pawson•Policy Studies•2002

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• Citizen participation and emprowerment

  Open Access•Richard C Rich, Michael Edelstein et al.•American Journal of Community…•1995

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• The authoritarian logic of regulatory pluralism

  Open Access•Benjamin Van Rooij, Rachel E Stern et al.•Regulation & Governance•2016

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• Member Commitment and Participation in Local Emergency Planning Committees

  Open Access•David J Whitney, Michael K Lindell•Policy Studies Journal•2000

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• Regulation through Information

  Open Access•Don Grant, Don S Grant et al.•Review of Policy Research•1995

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• Do Manufacturers Pollute Less Under the Regulation-Through-Information Regime? What Plant-Level Data Tell Us

  Open Access•Don Grant, Andrew W Jones•Sociological Quarterly•2004

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• Community right to know

  Open Access•Benjamin A Goldman, Benjamin Goldman•Environmental Impact Assessment…•1992

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