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US politics and climate change [electronic resource] : science confronts policy / Glen Sussman, Byron W. Daynes.

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Why is climate change the subject of such vehement political rhetoric in the United States? What explains the policy deadlock that has existed for nearly two decades-and that has resulted in the failure of US leadership in the international arena? Addressing these questions, Glen Sussman and Byron D...

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Main Author: Sussman, Glen (Author)
Other Authors: Daynes, Byron W.
Other title:United States politics and climate change
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Boulder, Colorado : Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2013.
Subjects:
Environmental policy > United States.
Climatic changes > Government policy > United States.
Climatic changes > Government policy.
Environmental policy.
United States.
Table of Contents:
  • Policy deadlock : grappling with climate change
  • Science meets government bureaucracy
  • Congress and the legislative process
  • Presidential leadership from Truman to Obama
  • The role of the judiciary
  • Interest groups and public opinion
  • The states weigh in
  • Assessing the US response to climate change.

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