Valuing Clean Air - The Epa and the Economics of Environmental Protection

Valuing Clean Air explains why and how environmental regulation came to be a critical site in the evolution of federal governance in both idea and practice in American politics and society.

List of contents

• Acknowledgments


• Introduction: Save EPA


• Chapter 1: The Costs of Pollution


• Chapter 2: The Doer: Power in Implementation


• Chapter 3: A Balancing Act: Regulatory Review


• Chapter 4: Putting the Profit Motive to Work: Regulatory Reform


• Chapter 5: Are You Tough Enough? Deregulation


• Chapter 6: Markets for Bads: Cap-and-Trade and the New Environmentalism


• Epilogue: The EPA and a Changing Climate


• Notes


• Bibliography


• Index

About the author

Charles Halvorson won the Bancroft Dissertation Award for his PhD at Columbia University. He was a Visiting Assistant Professor at Wesleyan University and currently works in management consulting.

Summary

Valuing Clean Air explains why and how environmental regulation came to be a critical site in the evolution of federal governance in both idea and practice in American politics and society.

Additional text

This book is a thought-provoking contribution to the historiography of the struggle against industrial pollution in late 20th century America. What made it thought-provoking for me was Halvorson's effort to frame his narrative around what he sees as humanity's need to minimize the economic cost of pollution regulation and abatement... This is an intriguing way to think about what was important about the battles that shaped the fight against industrial air pollution in America in the 1970s through the 1990s.

Product details

• Authors: Charles Halvorson, Charles (Independent Scholar Halvorson
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.08.2021
• EAN: 9780197538845
• ISBN: 978-0-19-753884-5
• No. of pages: 312
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; USA, Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Environmental Economics, Environmental Economics, Pollution & threats to the environment, United States of America, USA, Science / Environmental Science, Environmental policy & protocols, Environmentalist, Conservationist & Green Organizations, Environmentalist, conservationist and Green organizations, Pollution and threats to the environment, Environmental policy and protocols