Discuss how deterrence works as an enforcement strategy at the state level.

For this week’s assignment, you will be writing an essay addressing three important questions related to how federal, state, and local governments enforce environmental laws. First, discuss how deterrence works as an enforcement strategy at the state level; second, give three reasons why penalties and fees imposed upon polluters do not always deter polluters from continuing to pollute at the local level; and third, list and describe EPA’s three different kinds of federal enforcement actions.