Enforcement at the EPA

Enforcement at the EPA
Author: Joel A. Mintz
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Total Pages: 228
Release: 1995-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780292751873

This book offers the first comprehensive history of a difficult and often neglected part of EPA's responsibilities - the enforcement of federal environmental standards. Drawing on extensive interviews with the political appointees, administrators, and staff who have provided the agency's direction, as well as his own professional experience with EPA, Joel A. Mintz explores the historical evolution of the agency's enforcement program, its institutional setting within the larger political arena, and its current strengths and shortcomings. This history will be important reading for students of political science, public policy, environmental law, administrative law, anthropology, sociology, and related fields. It should also be read by attorneys who represent parties in enforcement cases initiated by EPA, by the agency's own managers and professional staff, and by public citizens concerned with environmental issues.

Enforcement at the EPA

Enforcement at the EPA
Author: Joel A. Mintz
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2012-04-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0292728409

The only published work that treats the historical evolution of EPA enforcement, this book provides a candid inside glimpse of a crucial aspect of the work of an important federal agency. Based on 190 personal interviews with present and former enforcement officials at EPA, the U.S. Department of Justice, and key congressional staff members—along with extensive research among EPA documents and secondary sources—the book vividly recounts the often tumultuous history of EPA’s enforcement program. It also analyzes some important questions regarding EPA’s institutional relationships and the Agency’s working environment. This revised and updated edition adds substantial new chapters examining EPA enforcement during the Clinton and George W. Bush administrations. Its treatment of issues of civil service decline and the applicability of captive agency theory is also new and original.

EPA Enforcement

EPA Enforcement
Author: United States. Environmental Protection Agency
Publisher:
Total Pages: 418
Release: 1972
Genre: Environmental law
ISBN:

Silent Spring

Silent Spring
Author: Rachel Carson
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 404
Release: 2002
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 9780618249060

The essential, cornerstone book of modern environmentalism is now offered in a handsome 40th anniversary edition which features a new Introduction by activist Terry Tempest Williams and a new Afterword by Carson biographer Linda Lear.

Fifty Years at the US Environmental Protection Agency

Fifty Years at the US Environmental Protection Agency
Author: A. James Barnes
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 671
Release: 2021-02-15
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1538147130

In conjunction with the 50th anniversary of the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency, this book brings together leading scholars and EPA veterans to provide a comprehensive assessment of the agency’s key decisions and actions in the various areas of its responsibility. Themes across all chapters include the role of rulemaking, negotiation/compromise, partisan polarization, judicial impacts, relations with the White House and Congress, public opinion, interest group pressures, environmental enforcement, environmental justice, risk assessment, and interagency conflict. As no other book on the market currently discusses EPA with this focus or scope, the authors have set out to provide a comprehensive analysis of the agency’s rich 50-year history for academics, students, professional, and the environmental community.

Dumping In Dixie

Dumping In Dixie
Author: Robert D. Bullard
Publisher: Avalon Publishing - (Westview Press)
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2008-03-31
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0813344271

To be poor, working-class, or a person of color in the United States often means bearing a disproportionate share of the country’s environmental problems. Starting with the premise that all Americans have a basic right to live in a healthy environment, Dumping in Dixie chronicles the efforts of five African American communities, empowered by the civil rights movement, to link environmentalism with issues of social justice. In the third edition, Bullard speaks to us from the front lines of the environmental justice movement about new developments in environmental racism, different organizing strategies, and success stories in the struggle for environmental equity.

How EPA Works

How EPA Works
Author: United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Management and Organization Division
Publisher:
Total Pages: 328
Release: 1994
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: