04345nam 2200673Ia 450 991027958620332120200520144314.01-282-12943-01-282-93535-6978661293535097866121294381-4008-2585-710.1515/9781400825851(CKB)1000000000756260(EBL)445515(OCoLC)505116447(SSID)ssj0000120278(PQKBManifestationID)11128603(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000120278(PQKBWorkID)10080628(PQKB)11637533(MdBmJHUP)muse36356(DE-B1597)446491(OCoLC)979744774(DE-B1597)9781400825851(Au-PeEL)EBL445515(CaPaEBR)ebr10284205(CaONFJC)MIL293535(MiAaPQ)EBC445515(EXLCZ)99100000000075626020020926d2003 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrChasing the wind regulating air pollution in the common law state /Noga Morag-LevineCourse BookPrinceton, NJ Princeton University Pressc20031 online resource (277 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-691-09481-0 0-691-12381-0 Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-247) and index. Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Regulating Air Pollution: Risk- and Technology-Based Paradigms -- Chapter 2. "Command and Control": Means, Ends, and Democratic Regulation -- Chapter 3. Regulating "Noxious Vapours": From Aldred's Case to the Alkali Act -- Chapter 4. On the "Police State" and the "Common Law State" -- Chapter 5. From Richards's Appeal to Boomer: Judicial Responses to Air Pollution, 1869-1970 -- Chapter 6. "Inspected Smoke": The Perpetual Mobilization Regime -- Chapter 7. "Odors," Nuisance, and the Clean Air Act -- Chapter 8. Regulating "Odors": The Case of Foundries -- Chapter 9. Conclusion -- Notes -- Cases Cited -- Selected Bibliography -- IndexThe Federal Clean Air Act of 1970 is widely seen as a revolutionary legal response to the failures of the earlier common law regime, which had governed air pollution in the United States for more than a century. Noga Morag-Levine challenges this view, highlighting striking continuities between the assumptions governing current air pollution regulation in the United States and the principles that had guided the earlier nuisance regime. Most importantly, this continuity is evident in the centrality of risk-based standards within contemporary American air pollution regulatory policy. Under the European approach, by contrast, the feasibility-based technology standard is the regulatory instrument of choice. Through historical analysis of the evolution of Anglo-American air pollution law and contemporary case studies of localized pollution disputes, Chasing the Wind argues for an overhaul in U.S. air pollution policy. This reform, following the European model, would forgo the unrealizable promise of complete, perfectly tailored protection--a hallmark of both nuisance law and the Clean Air Act--in favor of incremental, across-the-board pollution reductions. The author argues that prevailing critiques of technology standards as inefficient and undemocratic instruments of "command and control" fit with a longstanding pattern of American suspicion of civil law modeled interventions. This distrust, she concludes, has impeded the development of environmental regulation that would be less adversarial in process and more equitable in outcome.AirPollutionLaw and legislationUnited StatesPollutionLaw and legislationUnited StatesAirPollutionLaw and legislationPollutionLaw and legislation344.73/046342Morag-Levine Noga1044689MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910279586203321Chasing the wind2470483UNINA