Evaluating and Improving the Environmental Protection Agency

Conference Organizers:
Christopher Schroeder, Duke
Richard Lazarus, Georgetown
Robert Percival, Maryland
Jonathan Wiener, Duke

This conference follows on a highly successful event held at Duke ten years ago, the papers from which formed the symposium volume, Assessing the Environmental Protection Agency After Twenty Years: Law, Politics and Economics, 54 Law & Contemp. Prob., No. 4 (Schroeder and Lazarus, Special Eds., 1991). This conference will evaluate EPA from a number of different perspectives. It will examine how EPA takes both science and economics into account in its internal decision making, as well as how issues of distributional fairness are being incorporated into those decisions. It will also assess the institutional setting within which EPA operates, including its interactions with the courts, with the Congress, and with State, Tribal and local authorities. The focus of these examinations is forward-looking, with a view to identifying ways in which environmental policy and policymaking can be positioned to respond successfully to emerging environmental problems. The final session of the conference will be devoted to a broad examination of those emerging problems and the best options for addressing them.

For more information contact:
Dawn Blalock
Blalock@law.duke.edu
Tel: 919-613-7080
Box 90360
Durham, NC 27708-0360