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Valuing Clean Air - The EPA and the Economics of Environmental Protection (Hardcover)
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Valuing Clean Air - The EPA and the Economics of Environmental Protection (Hardcover)
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The passage of the Clean Air Act and the creation of the
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in 1970 marked a sweeping
transformation in American politics. In a few short years, the
environmental movement pushed Republican and Democratic elected
officials to articulate a right to clean air as part of a bevy of
new federal guarantees. Charged with delivering on those promises,
the EPA represented a bold assertion that the federal government
had a responsibility to protect the environment, the authority to
command private business to reduce their pollution, and the
capacity to dictate how they did so. In Valuing Clean Air, Charles
Halvorson examines how the environmental concern that propelled the
Clean Air Act and the EPA coincided with economic convulsions that
shook the liberal state to its core. Business groups, public
interest organizations, think tanks, and a host of other actors,
including Ralph Nader, wasted little time after the EPA's creation
in identifying and trying to pull the new levers of power. As
powerful businesses pressed to roll back regulations, elected
officials from both political parties questioned whether the nation
could keep its environmental promises. In response, the EPA's staff
and leadership practiced a politics of the possible, adopting a
monetized approach to environmental value that shielded the
agency's rulemaking but sat at odds with environmentalist notions
of natural rights and contributed to the elevation of economics as
the language and logic of policy. As Halvorson demonstrates,
environmental protection came to serve as a central battleground in
larger debates over markets, government, and public welfare. For
anyone who has wondered where cap and trade came from and how
environmental activists came to discuss wetlands protection, air
pollution, and fracking in the language of cost-benefit analysis,
Valuing Clean Air provides an insightful look at a half-century of
the making of US environmental policy.
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