Government Regulation of Food Quality: International and in France and the U.S.

2014 ◽  
pp. 53-82
Author(s):  
Victoria Hill
Keyword(s):  
Food Quality ◽  
Government Regulation ◽  
The U.S

scholarly journals Opioids: Government intervention and black markets

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (23) ◽  
pp. 28-32
Author(s):  
Berdine Gilbert
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Life Expectancy ◽  
Government Regulation ◽  
Government Intervention ◽  
Supply And Demand ◽  
Black Market ◽  
Black Markets ◽  
Opioid Crisis ◽  
Monopoly Pricing ◽  
The U.S

The U.S. is in the midst of an opioid crisis. This crisis is partially responsible for declining life expectancy. The rising mortality in young people 25-44 is partially responsible and is being attributed to opioids. In this article, the formation of black markets in response to government regulation will be examined. We will also examine how the black market changes in character with subsidies. The subsidies available for Medicaid patients can be close to 100%. The subsidy makes it profitable for Medicaid patients to be recruited as a source of supply of opioids. The economics of opioids and their black markets will be explained on the basis of supply and demand. The conclusion is that the type of illicit behavior occurring in the U.S. was both rational and predictable based on the regulation of narcotics, monopoly pricing of certain opioids, and the availability of government subsidies to obtain these opioids.

Health Care Reform in the USA

2010 ◽  
pp. 44-55
Author(s):  
F. Burdzhalov
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Insurance ◽  
Government Regulation ◽  
Health Insurance System ◽  
President Obama ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Insurance Business ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Contemporary Health Care

The main weaknesses of the contemporary health care system in the USA are: dropping of a significant part of the population out of the health insurance system, lack of the efficient insurance business government regulation, and excessive spendings for health care, from the public viewpoint, as well as their growth rates. Understanding of these problems forces the U.S. authorities to reform this branch of economy. The Act signed by the President Obama foresees changes in basic health care structures. The complex of such changes reflects the essence of the reform conducted.

PATTERNS AND TRENDS IN REPORTED SMALL OIL SPILLS

1985 ◽  
Vol 1985 (1) ◽  
pp. 141-148
Author(s):  
Gary A. Yoshioka ◽  
Andrew J. Franzoni ◽  
K. Jack Kooyoomjian ◽  
Terry L. Eby ◽  
Glenn A. Wiltshire
Keyword(s):  
Oil Spill ◽  
Government Regulation ◽  
Reporting System ◽  
Oil Spills ◽  
Outer Continental Shelf ◽  
Coastal Regions ◽  
Incident Reporting System ◽  
Oil Transportation ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Over Time

ABSTRACT Many recent analyses of oil spill data have focused on the occurrence of large spills. For example, a 1981 study compared the incidence of spills of more than 10,000 gallons in four U.S. coastal regions. A 1983 U.S. Department of the Interior study of spills of 1,000 barrels or more from outer continental shelf platforms found a statistically significant decrease in spill occurrence rates after 1974. Data from the U.S. Coast Guard's Pollution Incident Reporting System (PIRS) show a drop in the number of all reported oil spills from more than 12,000 in 1977 to fewer than 7,000 in 1982. Such reductions in reported spills have been attributed in part to stricter government regulation and enforcement, to changes in technology, or to a decline in oil transportation. The significance of small oil spills is discussed, and data on the occurrence of reported small oil spills are analyzed using information from the PIRS database. The trend over time in the number of spills of fewer than 10 gallons was found to be upward for some sources, water bodies, and regions, but downward for others. Although this paper does not examine causal relationships, increased awareness of the requirement to report oil discharges may have resulted in increased reporting of spills in some cases and increased efforts toward prevention of spills in other cases.

scholarly journals Nation’s Business and the environment: the U.S. Chamber’s changing relationships with DDT, “ecologists,” regulations, and renewable energy

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam D. Orford
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Reagan Administration ◽  
Government Regulation ◽  
Cost Benefit Analysis ◽  
Cost Benefit ◽  
Business Community ◽  
Full Text Review ◽  
Business Week ◽  
Business And The Environment ◽  
The U.S

AbstractNation’s Business was a monthly business magazine published by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, with a subscription list larger than Business Week, Forbes, or Fortune. This study explores how the magazine responded and adapted to the rise of environmentalism, and environmental regulation of business, by exploring its treatment of four topics: DDT, environmentalists, government regulation, and renewable energy. It is built on a full-text review of all issues of Nation’s Business published between 1945 and 1981. It reveals the development of a variety of anti-environmental logics and discourses, including the delegitimization of environmentalism as emotional and irrational, the undermining of scientific conclusions as uncertain, the monetization of decision-making using cost-benefit analysis, and the problematization of government overregulation. The study thus traces the origins of the anti-environmental policies of the Reagan Administration to the business community of the preceding decade.

scholarly journals The EPA Conventional Reduced Risk Pesticide Program

EDIS ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Frederick M. Fishel
Keyword(s):  
Groundwater Contamination ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Food Quality ◽  
Developmental Toxicity ◽  
Fact Sheet ◽  
Registration Process ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Reduced Risk ◽  
Contamination Effects

The Food Quality Protection Act (FQPA) of 1996 initiated the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Conventional Reduced Risk Pesticide Program. Its purpose is to expedite the review and registration process of conventional pesticides that pose less risk to human health and the environment than existing conventional alternatives. Riskier conventional alternatives are those pesticides EPA deems as having neurotoxic, carcinogenic, reproductive, and developmental toxicity, or groundwater contamination effects. It serves as a means to ensure that reduced risk pesticides enter the channels of trade and are available to growers as soon as possible. This 11-page fact sheet was written by F.M. Fishel, and published by the UF Department of Agronomy, April 2013. http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/pi224

scholarly journals Outsourcing U.S. Jobs Abroad: Why?

2014 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 253 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Schieberl ◽  
Marshall Nickles
Keyword(s):  
Government Regulation ◽  
Full Employment ◽  
The United States ◽  
Economic Incentives ◽  
American Government ◽  
Political Factors ◽  
Business Taxes ◽  
Tax Legislation ◽  
Rapid Spread ◽  
The U.S

Although the United States is the worlds biggest proponent of capitalism and free trade, the time has come to address what global economic pressures have done to Americas labor force. From the Second World War to approximately the late 1990s, the U.S. labor market was robust and full employment without inflation appeared to be feasible. However, the rapid spread of global technology provided the means by which all resources, including labor, could be transferred or utilized around the world with ease. From the 1980s forward, the American government began to favor deregulation, less government regulation on business, as well as more favorable business taxes. From 2000 to the present, the U.S. government encouraged the exporting of American jobs to other countries that provided less expensive labor as well as other favorable political and economic incentives. This was done by passing favorable domestic tax legislation for those firms that wished to outsource production. This paper addresses the dilemma that the U.S. economy now faces with high unemployment and its contribution to slow economic growth. Some of the economic, legal, and political factors that have encouraged the outsourcing of jobs are also addressed. A brief review of some of the suggested ways to help reverse U.S. job losses due to outsourcing is also explored.

The Role of Pollution Regulation and Litigation in the Development of the U.S. Meatpacking Industry, 1865–1880

2007 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 297-347 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine Meisner Rosen
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Environmental Pollution ◽  
Technological Innovation ◽  
Vertical Integration ◽  
Government Regulation ◽  
Economies Of Scale ◽  
Pollution Regulation ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Meatpacking Industry

Business historians have treated the emergence of large, modern, vertically integrated meatpacking firms in the second half of the nineteenth century as the economically rational and inevitable product of the industry's search for ways to maximize profits through technological innovation, vertical integration, and the achievement of economies of scale and scope. This is only part of the story, however. Society's efforts to force the industry to abate its environmental pollution through government regulation and private lawsuits also stimulated and shaped these processes of modernization.

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