Answer to Question #225725 in Economics for Ziya

Question

If the net benefits of a particular environmental policy were judged to be regressively distributed among different income groups, would this be sufficient to oppose to the policy?

Answer 1

No. The main goal of environmental policy is to regulate resource use or reduce pollution to promote human welfare and/or protect natural systems. What policy implications an examination of income-pollution links yields will be determined by how the empirical evidence is interpreted can be think in a different manner.