Environment, Energy, and Agriculture

Cleaner Air and Clearer Roads: A Plan for the Los Angeles Region

Publication Date: January 01, 1992

A major regional planning agency for the Los Angeles area faces the challenge of developing a plan to change, drastically, the region's transportation patterns in hopes of helping it meet federal air quality standards. The Southern California...

This Far and No Further: The Rise and Fall of the Committee on Earth and Environmental Sciences

Publication Date: January 01, 1992

This pair of cases, set in 1987 and 1988, examines the challenge faced by the top federal science officials to coordinate the efforts of a wide array of federal agencies to study the emerging problem of global environmental change ("global...

United States Sugar Program

Publication Date: January 01, 1992

US price supports for domestically grown sugar become controversial because of their varying impacts on sugar-exporting nations, domestic sugar refiners and, of course, domestic growers.Learning Objective:This case, told from the point of view...

Groundwater Regulation in Arizona

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, increasing demands for water threatened to lead to a crisis in Arizona. The growth of the desert state's cities posed a conflict with its agricultural and mining interests. Its main source of water--groundwater...

Solving Seattle's Solid Waste Crisis (Sequel)

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

The closing of two landfill sites creates a municipal crisis in Seattle, forced to find new disposal options for the 2,000 tons of garbage it produces each day. Political concerns over what appears to be the most practical disposal...

Solving Seattle's Solid Waste Crisis

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

The closing of two landfill sites creates a municipal crisis in Seattle, forced to find new disposal options for the 2,000 tons of garbage it produces each day. Political concerns over what appears to be the most practical disposal...

Reagan Administration and the Soviet Pipeline Embargo

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

The Reagan administration decision to impose economic sanctions designed to halt construction of a Soviet gas pipeline built to supply Western Europe led, starting in late 1981, to a serious split among the NATO allies. The administration's...

Please Be Patient: The Seattle Solid Waste Utility Meets the Press

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

When the Seattle Solid Waste Utility, the department responsible for trash pick-up and disposal, moved during 1988-90 to introduce curbside recycling and other dramatic changes in garbage collection, director Diana Gale believed presentation of...

Trash Collection in Lone Pine: To Privatize or Not?

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

This hypothetical case is a paradigm of the privatization decision facing many jurisdictions as they struggle with budget pressures. It tells the story of the town manager of a small Texas municipality who has reason to believe that, if she were...

Who Should Pay for San Onofre Nuclear Power Plants?

Publication Date: January 01, 1988

This case, drawn from proceedings of the California Public Utilities Commission, examines the financial implications for a utility of heightened scrutiny of a nuclear power plant project. The CPUC was due to begin hearings in December 1985 on a...

Managing Environmental Risk: The Case of Asarco (Sequel)

Publication Date: January 01, 1988

In July 1983, EPA Administrator William Ruckelshaus issued proposed regulations to control arsenic emissions from copper smelting and glass manufacturing plants. At the same time, he announced that EPA would involve residents of the Tacoma,...

Managing Environmental Risk: The Case of Asarco

Publication Date: January 01, 1988

In July 1983, EPA Administrator William Ruckelshaus issued proposed regulations to control arsenic emissions from copper smelting and glass manufacturing plants. At the same time, he announced that EPA would involve residents of the Tacoma,...