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Informationen zum Autor Dr Craig Collins has authored articles on climate negotiations for AMBIO and the Clinton administration's environmental policies for Mother Jones. After teaching at Sonoma State University and the University of California, Davis in the early 1990s, he became part of the faculty at California State University East Bay, where he continues to teach environmental law and policymaking, Latin American politics, global political economy, US foreign policy, and several other courses. As visiting faculty for the University of Pittsburgh's Semester at Sea program, Collins has lectured on world affairs, climate change negotiations, US foreign policy and Latin American politics aboard ship on the program's world tour and its tour of the Caribbean basin. Klappentext Investigates U.S. environmental laws and the EPA to explain why they have failed to clean up the country's land! air and water. Zusammenfassung Investigates US environmental laws and the EPA! which was charged with their enforcement! to explain why they have failed to arrest the nation's rising environmental crime wave and clean up country's land! air and water. It illustrates how weak laws! legal loopholes and regulatory negligence harm everyday people struggling to clean up their communities. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. The EPA; 2. The Clean Air Act; 3. The Clean Water Act; 4. Superfund and RCRA; 5. TSCA; 6. The Endangered Species Act; 7. Planetary problems; 8. Conclusion.
