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Originally published in 1995, Analyzing Superfund outlines the key
issues of the superfund reauthorization debate in the United
States. The Superfund law faced criticism for being wasteful,
inefficient and expensive. These papers sought to shed light on
this argument in relation to clean-up standards, the liability
regime, transaction costs and natural resource damage. This title
will be of interest to students of Environmental Studies and
professionals
Originally published in 1995, Analyzing Superfund outlines the key
issues of the superfund reauthorization debate in the United
States. The Superfund law faced criticism for being wasteful,
inefficient and expensive. These papers sought to shed light on
this argument in relation to clean-up standards, the liability
regime, transaction costs and natural resource damage. This title
will be of interest to students of Environmental Studies and
professionals
For decades, administrations of both political parties have used
cost-benefit analysis to evaluate and improve federal policy in a
variety of areas, including health and the environment. Today, this
model is under grave threat. In Reviving Rationality, Michael
Livermore and Richard Revesz explain how Donald Trump has
destabilized the decades-long bipartisan consensus that federal
agencies must base their decisions on evidence, expertise, and
analysis. Administrative agencies are charged by law with
protecting values like stable financial markets and clean air.
Their decisions often have profound consequences, affecting
everything from the safety of workplaces to access to the dream of
home ownership. Under the Trump administration, agencies have been
hampered in their ability to advance these missions by the
conflicting ideological whims of a changing cast of political
appointees and overwhelming pressure from well-connected interest
groups. Inconvenient evidence has been ignored, experts have been
sidelined, and analysis has been used to obscure facts, rather than
inform the public. The results are grim: incoherent policy, social
division, defeats in court, a demoralized federal workforce, and a
loss of faith in government's ability to respond to pressing
problems. This experiment in abandoning the norms of good
governance has been a disaster. Reviving Rationality explains how
and why our government has abandoned rationality in recent years,
and why it is so important for future administrations to restore
rigorous cost-benefit analysis if we are to return to a
policymaking approach that effectively tackles the most pressing
problems of our era.
This casebook emphasizes environmental policy, as well as the
structure and details of the federal environmental statutes. It
focuses students' attention on how tradeoffs between environmental
goals and social goals are resolved in different and difficult
contexts. The book pays close attention to the political context in
which regulation takes place, looking at the impact of the federal
government, interest groups, and administrative agencies in the
regulatory process. It examines current efforts to address climate
change and regulate greenhouse gases through existing statutory
frameworks. The casebook includes substantial introductions and
extensive notes and questions to guide classroom discussion. The
book has been updated to reflect new developments in the law of
natural resource management, water pollution, and climate change.
This casebook emphasizes environmental policy, as well as the
structure and details of the federal environmental statutes. It
focuses students' attention on how tradeoffs between environmental
goals and social goals are resolved in different and difficult
contexts. The book pays close attention to the political context in
which regulation takes place, looking at the impact of the federal
government, interest groups, and administrative agencies in the
regulatory process. It examines current efforts to address climate
change and regulate greenhouse gases through existing statutory
frameworks. The casebook includes substantial introductions and
extensive notes and questions to guide classroom discussion. The
book has been updated to reflect new developments in the law of
natural resource management, water pollution, and climate change.
CasebookPlus Hardbound - New, hardbound print book includes
lifetime digital access to an eBook, with the ability to highlight
and take notes, and 12-month access to a digital Learning Library
that includes self-assessment quizzes tied to this book, leading
study aids, an outline starter, and Gilbert Law Dictionary.
This book provides a comparative analysis of environmental
regulation in multi-jurisdictional legal and political systems,
focusing on the United States, the European Union, and the
international community. Each of these systems must deal with
environmental interdependencies that cross local borders. Some
transjurisdictional environmental problems are global, including
stratospheric ozone depletion, climate change and the loss of
biodiversity. Other environmental problems, however, are localized
in their effect on health and the environment: for example,
municipal waste disposal, many forms of pollution and resource
development, and drinking water quality. These varying
jurisdictional and environmental circumstances pose the central
question of how responsibility for addressing different
environmental problems should be allocated among the different
levels of decision making and implementation in a
multi-jurisdictional system.
That America's natural environment has been degraded and despoiled
over the past 25 years is beyond dispute. Nor has there been any
shortage of reasons why-short-sighted politicians, a society built
on over-consumption, and the dramatic weakening of environmental
regulations. In Retaking Rationality, Richard L. Revesz and Michael
A. Livermore argue convincingly that one of the least
understood-and most important-causes of our failure to protect the
environment has been a misguided rejection of reason. The authors
show that environmentalists, labor unions, and other progressive
groups have declined to participate in the key governmental
proceedings concerning the cost-benefit analysis of federal
regulations. As a result of this vacuum, industry groups have
captured cost-benefit analysis and used it to further their
anti-regulatory ends. Beginning in 1981, the federal Office of
Management and Budget and the federal courts have used cost-benefit
analysis extensively to determine which environmental, health, and
safety regulations are approved and which are sent back to the
drawing board. The resulting imbalance in political participation
has profoundly affected the nation's regulatory and legal
landscape. But Revesz and Livermore contend that economic analysis
of regulations is necessary and that it needn't conflict with-and
can in fact support-a more compassionate approach to environmental
policy. Indeed, they show that we cannot give up on rationality if
we truly want to protect our natural environment. Retaking
Rationality makes clear that by embracing and reforming
cost-benefit analysis, and by joining reason and compassion,
progressive groups can help enact strong environmental and public
health regulation.
This book provides a comparative analysis of environmental regulation in multi-jurisdictional legal and political systems, focusing on the United States, the European Union, and the international community. Each of these systems must deal with environmental interdependencies that cross local borders, in some cases creating regional problems, such as acid deposition, ozone type smog, and pollution of shared water bodies. Some transjurisdictional environmental problems are global, including stratospheric ozone depletion, climate change, and the loss of biodiversity. Other environmental problems, however, are localized in their effect on health and the environment.
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