Saving Our Environment from Washington : How Congress Grabs Power, Shirks Responsibility, and Shortchanges the People.
Title:
Saving Our Environment from Washington : How Congress Grabs Power, Shirks Responsibility, and Shortchanges the People.
Author:
Schoenbrod, David.
ISBN:
9780300128918
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (308 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Preface -- 1. Introduction: Then and Now1 -- Part I. Power -- 2. Coming to the Environmental Movement -- 3. Congress Does Its Thing -- 4. Leaving the Lead In -- 5. Failure and Success in Cleaning the Air -- 6. Growing Power -- 7. The EPA Today -- Part II. Science -- 8. What's Science Got to Do with It? -- 9. Lois Swirsky Gold, Chemicals, and Cancer -- 10. Angus Macbeth and the Hudson River -- 11. Precaution and Policy -- Part III. Our Republic -- 12. Coming Down to Earth -- 13. A Government of the People -- 14. Home Rule -- 15. Vicki Been and Environmental Justice -- 16. Legislative Responsibility -- Part IV. What We Lose -- 17. The Rights of Citizens -- 18. The Boon of Liberty -- 19. The Appeal of Law -- 20. The Joy of Doing -- 21. Conclusion: Spaceship Earth without a Captain -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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