final paper

MPA 611

Public and Administrative Law

Belhaven University

Unit 6

Laws and Policies on Nutritional Assistance

and the Environment

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■ Development of America’s Nutrition Assistance Policies,

Including Access, Eligibility, Benefit Levels, and

Administration

■ History of Environmental Law

■ Natural Capital and Its Protection

■ Externalities

■ The “Polluter Pays” Principle

■ Environmental Justice

■ Personal Property Rights

■ Major Environmental Legislation

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Unit 6 Topics

■ Food Stamp Program

❑ Began during the Great Depression

■ Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)

■ Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunities

Reconciliation Act of 1996

❑ Temporary Assistance to Needy (TANF)

■ Food Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 (the

“Farm Bill”)

■ Farm Bill of 2018 (12/20/2018)

❑ Largely, maintains SNAP benefits and eligibility requirements

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Nutrition Assistance Legislation

■ Food and Drugs Act

■ Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act

■ Wheeler-Lea Act

■ Nutrition Labeling and Education Act

■ Organic Foods Production Act

■ Food Safety Modernization Act

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Food Safety

■ Food and Drug Administration ❑ regulatory authority over most of the food system

■ human and veterinary drugs, vaccines, medical devices,

cosmetics, supplements, tobacco, and food (except meat

and eggs)

■ Environmental Protection Agency ❑ regulates use of pesticides, including those applied to

food crops

■ Department of Agriculture ❑ regulates meats and eggs

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Agriculture

■ Broad area of law that governs the interactions

between human beings and their environment

■ Includes regulations affecting:

❑ Pollution

❑ Natural resources

❑ Chemical use and disposal

❑ Clean-up of hazardous waste

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Environmental Law

■ Natural capital -- air, water, soil and every manner of

natural resources

■ Externalities -- the side effects of private actions,

typically commercial, that are borne by third parties

instead of the creator

■ Polluter Pays Principle -- requires the creator or

generator of the pollution to pay for its effects,

including externalities

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Key Terms

■ Complete reading assignments.

■ Complete writing assignments.

■ Answer discussion questions.

■ Complete unit quiz.

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What’s Next?

■ Fandl, K. J. (2019). Law and public policy. New

York, NY: Routledge.

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References