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Saving Our Environment from Washington: How Congress Grabs Power, Shirks Responsibility, and Shortchanges the People by David Schoenbrod (Paperback, 2006)
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A veteran environmentalist tells vivid tales of the environmental wars and arrives at a surprising conclusion. 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 does unnecessary damage to our society. EPA stays in power, he says, because it enables elected legislators to evade responsibility by hiding behind appointed bureaucrats. The best environmental rules-those that have done the most good-have come when Congress had to take responsibility or from states and localities rather than the EPA. With the passion of an authentic environmentalist, Schoenbrod makes a sensible plea for bottom-up environmental protection now. The responsibility for pollution control belongs not in agencies but in legislatures, and usually not at the federal level but rather closer to home.Product Identifiers
PublisherYale University Press
ISBN-139780300119848
eBay Product ID (ePID)96720375
Product Key Features
Number of Pages320 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameSaving Our Environment from Washington: How Congress Grabs Power, Shirks Responsibility, and Shortchanges the People
Publication Year2006
SubjectGeography & Geosciences, Geology, Government
TypeTextbook
AuthorDavid Schoenbrod
FormatPaperback
Dimensions
Item Height210 mm
Item Weight368 g
Item Width142 mm
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States
Title_AuthorDavid Schoenbrod
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