Guiding Thought Question: Should the states be allowed to enact environmental policies that differ from the direction of the Federal Government? What is an advantage and disadvantage of states having independence to make individual policies? Today's Learning Objective: Students will examine the role of state and local governments in the formulation of policy, and the more direct impact that smaller scale government can have on them. Students will take notes on the smaller forms of government, and then complete an assignment that examines the environmental actions of states across the country. Central Question: How do state and local governments operate and how can they be influential in the processes of environmental policy? (1.1.d, 1.1.e) |
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Helena
11/10/2021 07:38:00 am
States should be allowed to enact environmental policies that differ from the federal government because it will allow them to target specific environmental issues that happen only in that state. The advantage to this is that they'll be able to find better solutions to that specific state and a disadvantage is that states may avoid making the laws because of other things, like business.
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Lauren S
11/10/2021 07:40:49 am
I think that states should not be able to contradict federal law when it comes to environmental protection. The states can further an environmental policy if they are permitted to by the federal policy.
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Wedge
11/10/2021 12:33:37 pm
I think they should be able to because all the states have different environments and they all need to be protected differently. An advantage of this would the states could make more rules specialized to their environments but could also do things to damage them
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