The VVD, for example, is campaigning on a promise to limit the flow of unskilled immigrants into the country and to restrict newcomers' access to social services.
The US federal government has responded to the Chesapeake Bay challenge by imposing a limit on the amount of pollutants that can flow into the Bay and letting states set up credit-trading programs to promote the most efficient reductions possible.
Think about what this advancement has meant just in terms of access to the resources: When drilling into a hydrocarbon bearing formation 100 feet thick, vertical drilling would allow an operator to contact 100 feet of rock, which would limit your potential recovery to whatever oil or gas would flow into that length of pipe.