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Saving Our Environment from Washington: How Congress Grabs Power, Shirks Responsibility, and Shortchanges the People (RN) 🔍
David Schoenbrod New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2005
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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 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.
Alternative author
Schoenbrod, David
Alternative publisher
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
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Brandywine River Museum
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Mariners' Museum, The
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United States, United States of America
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[Online-Ausg.]., New Haven, CT, 2005
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March 11, 2005
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1st, 2005
Alternative description
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
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In a series of illuminating and gripping anecdotes, a veteran environmentalist explains how his experiences as an environmental advocate have led him to the realization that allowing the Environmental Protection Agency to dictate to the nation is a mistake.
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According to the author, the best environmental rules have come when Congress had to take responsibilities, or form states and localities rather than the EPA
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"Then" began late in 1975 at a dusty little airfield near San Juan, Puerto Rico.
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David Schoenbrod. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [233]-284) And Index.
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2023-06-28
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