Almost every nation sets up laws to control pollution effects and emitters. The implementation of the laws varies considerably and the effectiveness of the enforcement agency is sometimes questionable.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
The official pollution watchdog agency is the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Protecting the Earth from all types of pollutants.
All of them. Because key regulatory agency posts are staffed by veterans of the industry they're supposed to regulate, and many will expect to return to that industry at some point. It's called "the revolving door".
The industry an agency regulates controls the agency that is supposed to regulate it.
Texas Commision on Environmental Quality (TCEQ)
Agency Capture occurs when a public interest agency is put to the task of regulating another agency, but in the end is actually controled by the agency they were supposed to regulate.
the FDA
The Environmental Protection Agency is the US agency charged with setting and enforcing pollution standards
EPA ie. the Environmental Protection Agency
The FDA
The primary reason for the divergence of objectives between managers and shareholders has been attributed to separation of ownership (shareholders) and control (management) in corporations. As a consequence, agency problems, or principal-agent conflicts exist in the firm.