Read the 5 short articles listed in the Learning Materials this week about the EPA during the second Obama Administration and identify what you believe to be the most important environmental factors that may affect EPA operations and rulemaking as a federal agency.

Given the environmental factors that you have identified, how could the heads of the EPA and EPA managers have best produced “public value” for the U.S. public as a whole? What dilemmas might the EPA have faced in deciding how to produce “public value?” How, in your opinion, could these dilemmas have been addressed?

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-epa-lawsuit-20140805-story.html

https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2014/05/27/as-epa-preps-greenhouse-gas-limits-sen-joe-manchin-warns-people-will-die

https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2014/06/02/carbon-limits-fulfill-moral-obligation-to-act-on-global-warming-epa-chief-says

http://www.inquisitr.com/1795789/epa-factory-farm-pollution-lawsuit-filed/

https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2015/01/07/epa-to-complete-clean-power-plan-carbon-rules-by-summer