Environmental studies, OSHA, Cost-Benefit Analysis in Standard Setting/RCRA, and Enforcement and International Considerations in Chemical Regulation

Environmental studies, OSHA, Cost-Benefit Analysis in Standard Setting/RCRA, and Enforcement and International Considerations in Chemical Regulation

View the Introduction to OSHA at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6wRRWi6i0c and the Resource Conservation Recovery Act (RCRA) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieff5zGIyBM Training videos before working on this Case Assignment. For this two-part assignment, please submit a 5- to 6-page paper covering the objectives.

Part 1: This Case Assignment explores the OSH Act, including its inception and current state. Please answer the following questions.
1.What were the two most important factors leading to passage of the OSH Act? Explain why and justify your choice.
2.What were the positions of labor and industry about the need for federal legislation?
3.Describe three major issues that were debated during passage of the Act.
4.Explain compromises that were reached to assure the legislation would pass.
5.Why are so many of OSHA’s rules out of date?

Part 2: This Case Assignment investigates RCRA.
1.Under RCRA, what are defined as the generators of hazardous wastes?
2.Congress is reluctant to meddle in the internal production decisions of private companies. Therefore RCRA does not require minimization of hazardous wastes. Should there be enforceable limits for the generation of hazardous wastes, just as there are limits on the industrial discharge of water pollutants under other rules such as the Clean Water Act? Explain the rationale for your answer.