1st Edition
Reinventing Environmental Regulation Lessons from Project XL
256 Pages
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Routledge
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Project XL (eXcellence and Leadership) was the flagship effort by the Clinton administration for 'cleaner, cheaper, and smarter' regulation. Under Project XL, business promised better performance in exchange for a regulatory approach focused more on results than means, with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) measuring pollution reduction across rather than at individual sources within a... Read more
1. Environmental Policy in Transition
2. Quid Pro Quo and the Birth of Project XL
3. Conflicting Goals
4. Complicating Factors
5. Drafting the 3M Proposal
6. Gaining EPA Support for the Agreement
7. Trying to Overcome Deadlock: The Practical Impediments
8. Intel, Merck, and Weyerhaeuser: Three XL Projects that Gained Approval
9. Comparing the Approved Projects with 3M's Proposal
10. Roadblocks to Cooperative Solutions
11. Creating a Platform for Experiments
Appendix A: The Comparable Actions Test
Appendix B: Next Steps at 3M-Hutchinson
Appendix C: A More Unambiguous Definition of Superior Environmental Performance?
References
Acknowledgements
Index
About the Authors
Biography
Alfred A. Marcus is a professor in the Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota. Donald A. Geffen is research associate at the Strategic Management Research Center at the Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota. Ken Sexton is Bond Professor of Environmental Health Policy at the University of Minnesota.
'Reinventing Environmental Regulation affords a rare, in-depth look at efforts to implement an innovative environmental policy. Case descriptions along with thoughtful analysis produce important lessons for both public policymakers and corporate environmental managers.' Stuart Hart, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 'Excellent treatment of the barriers to regulatory negotiation . . . a realistic account of what happens when government seeks to set policy based on consensus.' Cary Coglianese, Harvard University
