1. a. Identify the economic incentives that motivate private firms to engage in pollution prevention activities.
b. How might the government devise policy initiatives to exploit these natural incentives?
2. Visit the Web site of Environmental Defense Fund, and review the list of its recent corporate partner- ships at www.edf.org/approach/partnerships/ corporate. Select one, and summarize the cooper- ative efforts between the Environmental Defense Fund and a private firm. Identify some of the potential environmental and economic benefits associated with that partnership.