Environmental regulation created a massive pollution-control industry dependent on continued enforcement.

Evidence

By the late 1990s, the global market for the pollution control industry was approximately 500 billion per year. The market for the United States alone was more than 200 billion per year by 2000. The pollution control industry in the United States employed then more than 1.4 million individuals, or as many people as were employed by several of the nation’s major industries, such as the aerospace industry. Approximately thirty thousand private entities and eighty thousand public entities engaged in the business of pollution control. — Richard J. Lazarus, The Making of Environmental Law, 718

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the polyad thread on law’s creation of economic constituencies and institutional feedback loops, as in ch14 business-funded counter-mobilization. — connects to: Criminalization attached moral stigma to environmental violations within regulated firms. — Richard J. Lazarus, The Making of Environmental Law, 727
• SEED: Angle: how regulatory compliance industries become a hidden constituency for the very laws industry lobbies against.