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You’re fairly well up the food chain at the U.S. EPA in the summer of 2015 (you got fast-tracked as a result of all you learned in your Spring 2015 environmental economics course) and have been asked to put together a set of policies to protect ecosystems, which the administration will put before Congress in the coming term. The bill will be along the lines of the latest amendments to the Clean Air Act: it will have various titles dealing with specific issues. However, it may pull together some existing policies, either wholly or in part, to the extent coordination will improve outcomes. Tell what policies, new and/or existing, you would consider, those you would propose as well as what you would choose not to propose, at least at this time, and your reasoning on those policies and the decisions regarding them. Remember that Congress is a political body.

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