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Saving our environment from Washington : how Congress grabs power, shirks responsibility, and shortchanges the people / David Schoenbrod.

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Congress empowered the Environmental Protection Agency on the theory that only a national agency that is insulated from accountability to voters could produce the scientifically-grounded pollution rules needed to save a careless public from its own filth. In this provocative book, David Schoenbrod e...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Schoenbrod, David
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, ©2005.
Subjects:
United States. > Congress > Powers and duties.
Environmental policy > United States.
Science and state > United States.
United States. > Congress.
Environmental policy.
Legislative power.
Science and state.
United States.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: then and now
  • Coming to the environmental movement
  • Congress does its thing
  • Leaving the lead in
  • Failure and success in cleaning the air
  • Growing power
  • The EPA today
  • What's science got to do with it?
  • Lois Swirsky Gold, chemicals, and cancer
  • Angus Macbeth and the Hudson River
  • Precaution and policy
  • Coming down to earth
  • A government of the people
  • Home rule
  • Vicki Been and environmental justice
  • Legislative responsibility
  • The rights of citizens
  • The boon of liberty
  • The appeal of law
  • The joy of doing
  • Conclusion: spaceship earth without a captain.

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