The Environmental Protection Agency : asking the wrong questions from Nixon to Clinton

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The Environmental Protection Agency : asking the wrong questions from Nixon to Clinton

Marc K. Landy, Marc J. Roberts, Stephen R. Thomas

Oxford University Press, 1994

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  • : hbk

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Includes bibliographical references index

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: hbk ISBN 9780195050219

内容説明

This text uses five case studies to examine environmental policies made under the Carter Administration, the years in which the EPA grew into the agency of today. A summary update of these cases through the Reagan Administration is also provided. The detailed discussions of these cases show how environmental policy suffered because of the inability of top officials to recognize the distinction between scientific questions and political questions and the interaction between the two. It also shows how environmental policy fell victim to public alarm, misinformation, power conflicts between competing interest groups, poor co-ordination between the offices within the EPA and inexperience on the part of the top officials. Nonetheless, some sensible rules did emerge. The authors argues that the EPA should shift its emphasis to protect the human environment and to formulate a coherent view of the proper balance between health and economic needs, rather than attemping to sort out the conflicting views of various special interest groups.

目次

  • Part One: Introduction
  • The origins and development of EPA
  • Part Two: Revising the ozone standard (with Valle Nazar)
  • Writing the RCRA regulations
  • Passing superfund
  • Enforcing the Clean Air Act: the steel industry
  • Forging a cancer policy: the interagency regulatory liaison group (with Margart Gerteis)
  • Part Two conclusion: the lessons of the cases
  • Part Three: The Reagan administration
  • The wrong question and why
  • Good questions.
巻冊次

: pbk ISBN 9780195086737

内容説明

The Environmental Protection Agency: From Nixon to Clinton seeks to uncover the mistaken premises upon which errant policy decisions have been founded. Through its comprehensive chronicle of the agency's evolution, it uniquely and expertly depicts the serious consequences which have resulted from poor policy decisions, and discusses which questions the EPA should be encouraged to ask, and how they can be encouraged to do so. With new chapters on the Bush and Clinton administrations, it is the only comprehensive history of the EPA, tracing the agency from its founding under Nixon to its current role in the Clinton administration.

目次

1: Introduction 2: The Origins and Development of the Environmental Protection Agency 3: Revising the Ozone Standard 4: Writing the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act Regulations 5: Passing Superfund 6: Forging a Cancer Policy: The Interagency Regulatory Liaison 7: The Steel Industry and Enforcing the Clean Air Act 8: The Reagan Administration 9: The Bush and Clinton Administrations 10: Conclusions

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