Saving Our Environment from Washington How Congress Grabs Power, Shirks Responsibility, and Shortchanges the People

Name: Saving Our Environment from Washington How Congress Grabs Power, Shirks Responsibility, and Shortchanges the People
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ISBN: 9780300119848

ISBN-10: 0300119844

ISBN-13: 9780300119848

Edition: 2006

Authors: 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 explains how his experience as an environmental advocate brought him to this startling realization: letting EPA dictate to the nation is a mistake. Through a series of gripping and illuminating anecdotes from his own career, the author reveals the EPA to be an agency that, under Democrats and Republicans alike, delays good rules, imposes bad ones, and is so big, muscle-bound, and remote that it…

Book details

List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 8/22/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 0.56" wide x 0.83" long x 0.07" tall
Weight: 0.792