The War on the EPA: America's Endangered Environmental Protections
Autor William M. Alley, Rosemarie Alleyen Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 noi 2023
The War on the EPA: America's Endangered Environmental Protections examines the daunting hurdles facing the EPA in its critical roles in drinking water, air and water pollution, climate change, and toxic chemicals. This book takes the reader on a journey into some of today's most pressing environmental problems: toxic "forever chemicals" known as PFAS, pervasive agricultural pollution, dead zones in the Gulf of Mexico, and widespread air and water pollution from use of fossil fuels. Delving into the science, politics, and human dimension of these and other problems, the book illustrates the challenges of regulation through the EPA's first fifty years, how today's war on science is undermining the scientific foundation upon which the agency's legitimacy rests, and why a strong U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is more important than ever before.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781538190951
ISBN-10: 1538190958
Pagini: 304
Dimensiuni: 139 x 216 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.39 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Locul publicării:New York, United States
ISBN-10: 1538190958
Pagini: 304
Dimensiuni: 139 x 216 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.39 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Locul publicării:New York, United States
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Cuprins
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 EPA 101
PART I: DRINKING WATER
2 Take It from the Tap
3 Environmental Justice
PART II: WATER POLLUTION
4 A Wicked Problem
5 Inconvenient Connections
PART III: AIR POLLUTION AND CLIMATE CHANGE
6 A Never-Ending Battle
7 Costs, Benefits, and Politics
8 Climate Change
PART IV: TOXIC CHEMICALS AND HAZARDOUS WASTE
9 Toxic Chemicals
10 The Forever Chemicals
11 Superfund
12 A Success Story
13 Resurrecting the EPA
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
About the Authors
Introduction
1 EPA 101
PART I: DRINKING WATER
2 Take It from the Tap
3 Environmental Justice
PART II: WATER POLLUTION
4 A Wicked Problem
5 Inconvenient Connections
PART III: AIR POLLUTION AND CLIMATE CHANGE
6 A Never-Ending Battle
7 Costs, Benefits, and Politics
8 Climate Change
PART IV: TOXIC CHEMICALS AND HAZARDOUS WASTE
9 Toxic Chemicals
10 The Forever Chemicals
11 Superfund
12 A Success Story
13 Resurrecting the EPA
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
About the Authors
Recenzii
In TheWar on the EPA, William M. Alley and Rosemarie Alley present an engaging and complex narrative to explain some of the United States Environmental Protection Agency's greatest struggles in regulating air, water, and ground contamination, tracing especially the most recent challenges stemming from the war on science.
Highly Recommended . . . Readers should underscore every sentence in this book . . . [Alley and Alley] unfold in chapter after chapter the ways in which regulations, negative attitudes about science, incompetence, and the public's general unawareness of what is in their tap water are all problematic.
. . . the Alleys provide another smartly written text full of fact-based fervor . . . [whipping] through events in American history that will make readers cringe with horror . . . A fully sourced, clarion call for action that many will respond to.
The Alleys have written a well-researched, articulate, and wide-rangingsurvey of environmental issues spanning the entire history of the agency. They combine William's scientific expertise (he was chief of the Office of Groundwater for the U.S. Geological Survey) with Rosemarie's professional writing skills to offer the reader a very fine and fluid narrative through technically and legally dense subject matter. It would be great supplemental material for an environmental policy or law course. Lawyers looking for a broader perspective, beyond their specialty, and a brief history of environmental regulations and the battles over same, would also benefit.
The War on the EPA is a war on science, the environment, and public health -- as William and Rosemarie Alley's engaging new book carefully documents. It's a must-read for scientists, advocates, policymakers, and citizens committed to safeguarding the integrity of our nation's premier environmental protection institution.
If you care about the health of American families and the future of your children, then read this book. It will make you stand up, shout out, and take action to defend science and the EPA at a time when we are losing the battle against life-threatening pollution.
The terms the Environmental Protection Agency, the Clean Air Act and the Clean Water Act have become firmly entangled into the modern (post World War II) American lexicon. For some they represent government doing the right thing in the face of, very often overwhelming odds. For others they evoke feelings of the Federal government overreaching and overregulating. Nevertheless, the history of how the EPA and those two sentinel acts came into being, and how the interpretation of those acts has been influenced by one president after another is not well understood by the average American. The War on the EPA puts those histories under the microscope and into sharp focus. It is at the same time an easy read and a profound historical resource, and has earned a place on my bookshelf. Highly recommended!
Accessible yet detailed, science-based yet politically-savvy, factual yet gripping, The War on the EPA assembles the government agency's history, the toxic tragedies that prompted its creation, the people who made it work, and, sadly, the people who try to undermine and dismantle this protector of our air, land, and water. It presents a vital account beneath profit and material prosperity. What use are they if our skin breaks out in rashes, our water brings cancer, and our children are born malformed with lower IQs? This book is a timely resource to remedy our situation, more valuable now than ever.
A well-researched chronicle of environmental and human health threats we have overcome, and face given the current administration's simplistic environmental policy of "reverse everything the Obama EPA did." We have only one environment. EPA as the agency created to protect and restore our environment must be driven by accurate science, not politics or corporate profits. Science matters. Truth matters. Persistence matters. This book provides the proof.
Highly Recommended . . . Readers should underscore every sentence in this book . . . [Alley and Alley] unfold in chapter after chapter the ways in which regulations, negative attitudes about science, incompetence, and the public's general unawareness of what is in their tap water are all problematic.
. . . the Alleys provide another smartly written text full of fact-based fervor . . . [whipping] through events in American history that will make readers cringe with horror . . . A fully sourced, clarion call for action that many will respond to.
The Alleys have written a well-researched, articulate, and wide-rangingsurvey of environmental issues spanning the entire history of the agency. They combine William's scientific expertise (he was chief of the Office of Groundwater for the U.S. Geological Survey) with Rosemarie's professional writing skills to offer the reader a very fine and fluid narrative through technically and legally dense subject matter. It would be great supplemental material for an environmental policy or law course. Lawyers looking for a broader perspective, beyond their specialty, and a brief history of environmental regulations and the battles over same, would also benefit.
The War on the EPA is a war on science, the environment, and public health -- as William and Rosemarie Alley's engaging new book carefully documents. It's a must-read for scientists, advocates, policymakers, and citizens committed to safeguarding the integrity of our nation's premier environmental protection institution.
If you care about the health of American families and the future of your children, then read this book. It will make you stand up, shout out, and take action to defend science and the EPA at a time when we are losing the battle against life-threatening pollution.
The terms the Environmental Protection Agency, the Clean Air Act and the Clean Water Act have become firmly entangled into the modern (post World War II) American lexicon. For some they represent government doing the right thing in the face of, very often overwhelming odds. For others they evoke feelings of the Federal government overreaching and overregulating. Nevertheless, the history of how the EPA and those two sentinel acts came into being, and how the interpretation of those acts has been influenced by one president after another is not well understood by the average American. The War on the EPA puts those histories under the microscope and into sharp focus. It is at the same time an easy read and a profound historical resource, and has earned a place on my bookshelf. Highly recommended!
Accessible yet detailed, science-based yet politically-savvy, factual yet gripping, The War on the EPA assembles the government agency's history, the toxic tragedies that prompted its creation, the people who made it work, and, sadly, the people who try to undermine and dismantle this protector of our air, land, and water. It presents a vital account beneath profit and material prosperity. What use are they if our skin breaks out in rashes, our water brings cancer, and our children are born malformed with lower IQs? This book is a timely resource to remedy our situation, more valuable now than ever.
A well-researched chronicle of environmental and human health threats we have overcome, and face given the current administration's simplistic environmental policy of "reverse everything the Obama EPA did." We have only one environment. EPA as the agency created to protect and restore our environment must be driven by accurate science, not politics or corporate profits. Science matters. Truth matters. Persistence matters. This book provides the proof.