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

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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Основен автор: Schoenbrod, David.
Формат: Електронна книга
Език: English
Публикувано: New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, ℗♭2005.
Предмети:
United States. > Congress > Powers and duties.
United States. > Congress.
Etats-unis. > Congress.
Etats-Unis. > Congress > Pouvoirs et fonctions.
Environmental policy > United States.
Science and state > United States.
Environnement > Politique gouvernementale > Etats-Unis.
Politique scientifique et technique > Etats-Unis.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Development > Sustainable Development.
NATURE > Environmental Conservation & Protection.
Environmental policy.
Legislative power.
Science and state.
United States > .
Electronic books.
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Подобни документи: Print version:: Saving our environment from Washington.
Съдържание:
  • 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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