04002oam 2200661Ma 450 991078650040332120230629211216.01-283-74158-X0-262-30529-1(CKB)2670000000276775(OCoLC)818734333(CaPaEBR)ebrary10626205(SSID)ssj0000759804(PQKBManifestationID)12304305(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000759804(PQKBWorkID)10784034(PQKB)10633756(MiAaPQ)EBC3339538(OCoLC)820785229(OCoLC)818734333(OCoLC)961556512(OCoLC)962689791(OCoLC)975246294(OCoLC)975294037(OCoLC)988410760(OCoLC)991926519(OCoLC)1000445095(OCoLC)1001224378(OCoLC)1006288764(OCoLC-P)820785229(MaCbMITP)8550(Au-PeEL)EBL3339538(CaPaEBR)ebr10626205(CaONFJC)MIL405408(OCoLC)820785229(EXLCZ)99267000000027677520120409d2013 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrOpen for business conservatives' opposition to environmental regulation /Judith A. LayzerCambridge MIT Press©20131 online resource (521 p.)American and comparative environmental policyBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-262-52602-6 0-262-01827-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.A detailed analysis of the policy effects of conservatives' decades-long effort to dismantle the federal regulatory framework for environmental protection.Since the 1970s, conservative activists have invoked free markets and distrust of the federal government as part of a concerted effort to roll back environmental regulations. They have promoted a powerful antiregulatory storyline to counter environmentalists' scenario of a fragile earth in need of protection, mobilized grassroots opposition, and mounted creative legal challenges to environmental laws. But what has been the impact of all this activity on policy? In this book, Judith Layzer offers a detailed and systematic analysis of conservatives' prolonged campaign to dismantle the federal regulatory framework for environmental protection.Examining conservatives' influence from the Nixon era to the Obama administration, Layzer describes a set of increasingly sophisticated tactics--including the depiction of environmentalists as extremist elitists, a growing reliance on right-wing think tanks and media outlets, the cultivation of sympathetic litigators and judges, and the use of environmentally friendly language to describe potentially harmful activities. She argues that although conservatives have failed to repeal or revamp any of the nation's environmental statutes, they have influenced the implementation of those laws in ways that increase the risks we face, prevented or delayed action on newly recognized problems, and altered the way Americans think about environmental problems and their solutions. Layzer's analysis sheds light not only on the politics of environmental protection but also, more generally, on the interaction between ideas and institutions in the development of policy.Environmental policyUnited StatesConservatismUnited StatesEnvironmental lawUnited StatesUnited StatesEnvironmental conditionsUnited StatesPolitics and governmentENVIRONMENT/Environmental Politics & PolicyEnvironmental policyConservatismEnvironmental law363.7/05610973Layzer Judith A.1477464OCoLC-POCoLC-PBOOK9910786500403321Open for business3714697UNINA