Answer to Question #227959 in Economics for MabZ

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 the policy?

Answer 1

No, it is false.

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.