Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 656 Seiten)
ISBN:
9781538147139
Content:
In conjunction with the 50th anniversary of the creation of the EPA, this book brings together leading scholars and EPA veterans to provide a comprehensive assessment of the agency's key decisions and actions in various areas of its responsibility. The authors have set out to provide a comprehensive analysis of the agency's rich 50-year history.
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Editors' Note -- Ch01. The Establishment of EPA -- Ch02. Clean Air: Regulation of Stationary Sources -- Ch03. Clean Air: Controls on Cars, Trucks, and Fuels -- Ch04. EPA and Climate Change -- Ch05. EPA and the Clean Water Act -- Ch06. Safe Drinking Water -- Ch07. Addressing Land Disposal of Wastes -- Ch08. Cleanup of Uncontrolled Waste Sites -- Ch09. Regulation of Chemicals, Pesticides, and Genetically Engineered Organisms -- Ch10. Environmental Science at EPA: Providing Good Science for Relevant Policy -- Ch11. How Economics Has Contributed to EPA -- Ch12. Politics and EPA -- Ch13. Agenda Setting at EPA -- Ch14. EPA at Fifty: A Look Back and Forward -- Appendix. List of Administrators of US Environmental Protection Agency -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Authors.
Note:
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781538147146
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Fifty years at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2021 ISBN 9781538147146
Language:
English
Keywords:
USA
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Umweltschutz
