LEADER 04228nam 22006254a 450 001 9910813414703321 005 20240418000233.0 010 $a1-281-72924-8 010 $a9786611729240 010 $a0-300-12891-6 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300128918 035 $a(CKB)1000000000471764 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH23049539 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000241438 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11219333 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000241438 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10268119 035 $a(PQKB)10050700 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3420011 035 $a(DE-B1597)485317 035 $a(OCoLC)952732543 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300128918 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3420011 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10170037 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL172924 035 $a(OCoLC)923589882 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000471764 100 $a20041019d2005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aSaving our environment from Washington $ehow Congress grabs power, shirks responsibility, and shortchanges the people /$fDavid Schoenbrod 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew Haven, CT $cYale University Press$dc2005 215 $a1 online resource (320 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a0-300-10621-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tPreface --$tchapter one Introduction Then and Now --$tchapter two Coming to the Environmental Movement --$tchapter three Congress Does Its Thing --$tchapter four Leaving the Lead In My --$tchapter five Failure and Success in Cleaning the Air --$tchapter six Growing Power --$tchapter seven The EPA Today --$tchapter eight What's Science Got to Do with It? --$tchapter nine Lois Swirsky Gold, Chemicals, and Cancer --$tchapter ten Angus Macbeth and the Hudson River --$tchapter eleven Precaution and Policy --$tchapter twelve Coming Down to Earth --$tchapter thirteen A Government of the People --$tchapter fourteen Home Rule --$tchapter fifteen Vicki Been and Environmental Justice --$tchapter sixteen Legislative Responsibility --$tchapter seventeen The Rights of Citizens --$tchapter eighteen The Boon of Liberty --$tchapter nineteen The Appeal of Law --$tchapter twenty The Joy of Doing --$tchapter twenty-one Conclusion Spaceship Earth without a Captain --$tNotes --$tAcknowledgments --$tIndex 330 $aCongress empowered the Environmental Protection Agency on the theory that only a national agency that is insulated from accountability to voters could produce the scientifically grounded pollution rules needed to save a careless public from its own filth. In this provocative book, David Schoenbrod explains how his experience as an environmental advocate brought him to this startling realization: letting EPA dictate to the nation is a mistake. Through a series of gripping and illuminating anecdotes from his own career, the author reveals the EPA to be an agency that, under Democrats and Republicans alike, delays good rules, imposes bad ones, and is so big, muscle-bound, and remote that it does unnecessary damage to our society. EPA stays in power, he says, because it enables elected legislators to evade responsibility by hiding behind appointed bureaucrats. The best environmental rules-those that have done the most good-have come when Congress had to take responsibility or from states and localities rather than the EPA. With the passion of an authentic environmentalist, Schoenbrod makes a sensible plea for "bottom-up" environmental protection now. The responsibility for pollution control belongs not in agencies but in legislatures, and usually not at the federal level but rather closer to home. 606 $aEnvironmental policy$zUnited States 606 $aScience and state$zUnited States 615 0$aEnvironmental policy 615 0$aScience and state 676 $a333.72/0973 700 $aSchoenbrod$b David$01592976 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910813414703321 996 $aSaving our environment from Washington$93912875 997 $aUNINA