Policy Gridlock in Waste Management |
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| Authors: | David L. Feldman Jean H. Peretz Barbara D. Jendrucko |
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| Affiliation: | David L. Feldman;is Senior Research Associate in the Energy, Environment and Resources Center, University of Tennessee. He is interested in public involvement in natural resources and environmental issues. He is the author of Water Resources Management: In Search of an Environmental Ethic (1991), Global Climate Change and Public Policy (1994), and various articles. Jean H. Peretz;is a Senior Research Associate at the University of Tennessee's Energy, Environment and Resources Center. Her research interests include federalism, energy/waste relationships, and waste reduction policies and practices. Barbara D. Jendrucko;is with the Clinton (Tennessee) Utilities Board. While she was completing her Master of Business Administration degree at the University of Tennessee, she performed research on remediation of federal facilities and environmental policy issues. |
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| Abstract: | Current federal hazardous and low-level radioactive waste management policies (under conjoint federalism) fail to balance national concerns for consistency with state concerns for equity, discretion, and adequate resources. Congress should expand conjoint federalism to permit states to charge differential fees on imported hazardous waste as it does for low-level radioactive waste. For low-level radioactive waste, clarification of the "take title" issue makes the present framework for state discretion implementable, given sufficient time. |
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