A recent effort by a coalition of national environmental interest groups to create a new environmental health regulation illustrates the complex nature of this method of influencing the federal regulatory system. The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), with the cooperation of several other...

A recent effort a by a congressional subcommittee to form an interagency advisory council illustrates the elaborate dynamics behind the establishment of federal environmental health policy. The creation of the interagency advisory council, which would combine representatives from four federal...

Many concerned with how government functions consider creating competition between bureaucracies an attractive option. Others are skeptical of what impact rival agencies have when they are operating within a political context. Reflecting these discrepant viewpoints, some scholars believe that...