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45 Envtl. L. [i] (2015)

handle is hein.journals/envlnw45 and id is 1 raw text is: ENVIRONMENTAL LAW Lewis & Clark Law School VOLUME 45 WINTER 2015 NUMBER 1 EDITOR'S NOTE Ecological Crossroads ................................... i Victor S Reuther ARTICLES Interest Groups and Environmental Policy: Inconsistent Positions and Missed Opportunities ............................. 1 Michael A. Livermore & Richard L Revesz This Article examines and explains the positions of the principal interest groups over the past four decades with respect to two central questions of environmental policy: the appropriate policy goal and the instrument that should be used to carry out the policy. With respect to the first question, this Article observes that, at the beginning of the contemporary period of environmental law, industry groups strongly supported setting the stringency of environmental standards by reference to cost-benefit analysis. At the same time, environmental advocacy organizations strongly opposed the use of cost-benefit analysis. As environmental regulators gained greater proficiency in the quantification and monetization of environmental benefits, industry groups came to see that, when properly conducted, cost-benefit analysis could justify stringent environmental protection. Consequently, they have abandoned their original enthusiasm for the technique. Similarly, over the same period of time, environmental groups came to see the promise of cost-benefit analysis, for similar reasons. With respect to instrument choice, industry groups were originally attracted to marketable permit schemes as a lower-cost means of achieving pollution reduction, while environmental groups were skeptical of these approaches. First with the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990, and then when faced with the daunting challenge of climate change, environmental groups acknowledged that market mechanisms are more economically and politically viable than command-and-control regimes because they impose far lower

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