Environmental Protection Issues in the 1980s
Author | : United States. General Accounting Office |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 62 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Environmental policy |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : United States. General Accounting Office |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 62 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Environmental policy |
ISBN | : |
Author | : United States. General Accounting Office |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 46 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Air |
ISBN | : |
Author | : United States Accounting Office (GAO) |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 2018-08-20 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781720665359 |
Environmental Protection Issues in the 1980's
Author | : Norman J. Vig |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
Author | : U S Government Accountability Office (G |
Publisher | : BiblioGov |
Total Pages | : 68 |
Release | : 2013-07 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781289157197 |
Congress has enacted comprehensive legislation which has enlarged and strengthened the regulatory and subsidy parts of Federal environmental policy. Questions have been raised as to whether environmental goals are too costly to achieve, and whether the right balance has been struck between environmental objectives and energy, economic, and social goals. GAO has identified 14 current and emerging issues relating to Federal involvement in the environmental protection area which represent the perspective used in organizing GAO audit efforts. The primary criterion for identifying these issues was the level of existing and anticipated congressional interest. Due to their status as critical national issues as well as being areas where GAO can make the most significant contribution to the Nation's efforts to resolve environmental issues, seven areas have been designated for priority attention. These priority issues are: (1) whether environmental protection regulatory strategies are effective and what alternative approaches exist; (2) whether anything is being done to reduce the social and economic impact of environmental protection programs on the public and private sectors; (3) whether institutional arrangements are effective for implementing environmental laws and considering trade-offs with other national priorities; (4) whether the public is adequately protected from the harmful effects of dangerous pesticides and chemicals; (5) whether Federal and State efforts are adequate to protect human health and the environment from air pollution; (6) whether the Nation's water quality goals are achievable with present programs and resources; and (7) whether Federal and State solid and hazardous waste programs are effectively protecting public health and the environment.
Author | : Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development |
Publisher | : Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development ; [Washington, D.C. : sold by OECD Publications and Information Center] |
Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
Author | : James Morton Turner |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2018-11-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0674979974 |
Not long ago, Republicans could take pride in their party’s tradition of environmental leadership. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the GOP helped to create the Environmental Protection Agency, extend the Clean Air Act, and protect endangered species. Today, as Republicans denounce climate change as a “hoax” and seek to dismantle the environmental regulatory state they worked to build, we are left to wonder: What happened? In The Republican Reversal, James Morton Turner and Andrew C. Isenberg show that the party’s transformation began in the late 1970s, with the emergence of a new alliance of pro-business, libertarian, and anti-federalist voters. This coalition came about through a concerted effort by politicians and business leaders, abetted by intellectuals and policy experts, to link the commercial interests of big corporate donors with states’-rights activism and Main Street regulatory distrust. Fiscal conservatives embraced cost-benefit analysis to counter earlier models of environmental policy making, and business tycoons funded think tanks to denounce federal environmental regulation as economically harmful, constitutionally suspect, and unchristian, thereby appealing to evangelical views of man’s God-given dominion of the Earth. As Turner and Isenberg make clear, the conservative abdication of environmental concern stands out as one of the most profound turnabouts in modern American political history, critical to our understanding of the GOP’s modern success. The Republican reversal on the environment is emblematic of an unwavering faith in the market, skepticism of scientific and technocratic elites, and belief in American exceptionalism that have become the party’s distinguishing characteristics.