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Record Nr.

UNINA9910787654703321

Autore

Ackerman Bruce A

Titolo

Clean coal/dirty air : or how the Clean Air Act became a multibillion-dollar bail-out for high-sulfur coal producers and what should be done about it / / Bruce A. Ackerman and William T. Hassler

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Haven : , : Yale University Press, , 1981

ISBN

0-300-15809-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (204 p.)

Collana

A Yale fastback ; ; 23

Altri autori (Persone)

HasslerWilliam T

Disciplina

347.304/46342

344.73/046342

Soggetti

Air - Pollution - Law and legislation - United States

Coal - Law and legislation - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Preliminary version ... published by the Yale law journal in its July 1980 issue under the title 'Beyond the New Deal: coal and the Clean air act.'"

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Beyond The New Deal -- 2. The Myth of Expertise -- 3. The Politics of Ignorance -- 4. The Myth of Majority Rule -- 5. To What End? -- 6. Expertise in the Service of Politics -- 7. Agency-Forcing and the Role of Courts -- 8. Reform -- Notes -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

A path-breaking effort in constitutional theory which brings a new clarity to the interpretation of the Fifth Amendment's just compensation clause. Essential reading for lawyers concerned with environmental regulation or the general development of constitutional doctrine.