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Fifty years at the US Environmental Protection Agency : progress, retrenchment, and opportunities
Title
Fifty years at the US Environmental Protection Agency : progress, retrenchment, and opportunities / editors, A. James Barnes, John D. Graham, David M. Konisky.
ISBN
9781538147146
1538147149
9781538147139
Publication
Lanham ; Boulder ; New York ; London : Rowman & Littlefield, [2021]
Copyright Notice Date
©2021.
Physical Description
xiii, 656 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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."-- Provided by the publisher.
Variant and related titles
50 years at the United States Environmental Protection Agency.
Other formats
Online version: Fifty years at the u.s. environmental protection agency Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2020.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 14, 2021
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 571-619) and index.
Contents
Establishment of EPA / A. James Barnes
Clean air : regulation of stationary sources / William F. Pederson
Clean air : controls on cars, trucks, and fuels / John D. Graham
EPA and climate change / Jody Freeman
EPA and the Clean Water Act / Jonathan Z. Cannon
Safe drinking water / James Salzman
Addressing land disposal of wastes / Marcia Williams
Cleanup of uncontrolled waste sites / Gene Lucero and Marcia Williams
Regulation of chemicals, pesticides, and genetically engineered organisms / John D. Graham and Penelope Fenner-Crisp
Environmental science at EPA : providing good science for relevant policy / Terry F. Yosie and Bernard D. Goldstein
How economics has contributed to EPA / Richard D. Morgenstern
Politics and EPA / David M. Konisky and Megan Mullin
Agenda setting at EPA / John D. Graham and Jonathan B. Wiener
EPA at fifty : looking back and forward / David M. Konisky
Appendix. List of administrators of US Environmental Protection Agency.
Subjects
Genre/Form
History.
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Rowman and Littlefield, Inc.
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