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Fifty years at the US Environmental Protection Agency : progress, retrenchment, and opportunities /

"In conjunction with the 50th anniversary of the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency, this book brings together leading scholars and EPA veterans to provide a comprehensive assessment of the agency's key decisions and actions in the various areas of its responsibility. Themes a...

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Corporate Authors: Rowman and Littlefield, Inc.
Group Author: Barnes, A. James; Graham, John D. (John David), 1956-; Konisky, David M.
Published: Rowman & Littlefield,
Publisher Address: Lanham, MD :
Publication Dates: [2021]
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Subjects:
United States. > Environmental Protection Agency > History.
United States. > Environmental Protection Agency.
Environmental protection > United States > History.
Environmental law > United States > History.
Pollution > Law and legislation > United States > History.
Pollution > Government policy > United States > History.
Environmental protection.
Environmental law.
Pollution > Government policy.
Pollution > Law and legislation.
United States.
History.
Summary: "In conjunction with the 50th anniversary of the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency, this book brings together leading scholars and EPA veterans to provide a comprehensive assessment of the agency's key decisions and actions in the various areas of its responsibility. Themes across all chapters include the role of rulemaking, negotiation/compromise, partisan polarization, judicial impacts, relations with the White House and Congress, public opinion, interest group pressures, environmental enforcement, environmental justice, risk assessment, and interagency conflict."--
Carrier Form: xiii, 656 pages : illustrations, charts ; 24 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 571-619) and index.
ISBN: 9781538147146
1538147149
Index Number: TD171
CLC: X-017.12
Call Number: X-017.12/F469
Contents: Establishment of EPA /
Clean air : regulation of stationary sources /
Clean air : controls on cars, trucks, and fuels /
EPA and climate change /
EPA and the Clean Water Act /
Safe drinking water /
Addressing land disposal of wastes /
Cleanup of uncontrolled waste sites /
Regulation of chemicals, pesticides, and genetically engineered organisms /
Environmental science at EPA : providing good science for relevant policy /
How economics has contributed to EPA /
Politics and EPA /
Agenda setting at EPA /
EPA at fifty : looking back and forward /
List of administrators of US Environmental Protection Agency.

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