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    Air quality standards and regulatory styles in West Germany and the United States of America
    (1989) Bauman, Eric Hans; Renn, Ortwin
    A comparative analysis of air quality standard-setting in the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) and the United States of America (USA) suggests that the environmental regulatory processes have been significantly influenced by different cultural traditions and legal requirements. Though isolated regulatory strategies have been transferred (e.g., use of emission "bubbles"), the potential for transferring attractive elements of each country's regulatory approach will be limited. However, the authors found that the transfer of regulatory, scientific and technological information between the US and the FRG appear to have had the greatest impacts on the regulatory processes in each of the two countries.The results of this study also suggest that public and private sector policy makers will increasingly find it necessary to track the results of regulatory activities, as well as technological innovations, in other countries in order to forecast and influence potential regulatory or legislative actions.
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    Regulation of air toxics in West Germany and the United States : a comparative analysis of environmental standard setting
    (1987) Bauman, Eric Hans; Renn, Ortwin
    Through an analysis of the regulatory proceedings for four case studies (including two air toxics-- cadmium, and dioxins in municipal waste incinerators), the authors found that the regulatory processes for promulgating control standards for hazardous air pollutant and other air emissions in the Federal Republlc of Germany (FRG) and the United States of America (US) have some surprising similarities and significant differences. The differences appear to be based in both culture, and legal frameworks; therefore, the advantages of either system do not appear to be transferrable without significant changes. The authors further conclude that the transfer of information between the US and the FRG about pollution control technologies, health effects studies and other regulatory developments appear to have had, and no doubt will continue to have, the greatest impacts on the regulatory processes between the two countries. Regarding standard-setting for air toxics, the FRG has regulated more air toxics at the national level than the US. This paper briefly summarizes the basic air pollution control laws in the FRG, summarizes the FRG standard-setting processes and compares the standard-setting processes of the US and the FRG.