Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public WorksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Nomination of Christine Todd Whitman
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public WorksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Nomination of Christine Todd Whitman
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public WorksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Nominations to the Board of Directors of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and TransportationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
The Rule of Five
Author: Richard J. LazarusPublisher: Belknap Press
ISBN: 0674238125
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
Winner of the Julia Ward Howe Prize “The gripping story of the most important environmental law case ever decided by the Supreme Court.” —Scott Turow “In the tradition of A Civil Action, this book makes a compelling story of the court fight that paved the way for regulating the emissions now overheating the planet. It offers a poignant reminder of how far we’ve come—and how far we still must go.” —Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature On an unseasonably warm October morning, an idealistic young lawyer working on a shoestring budget for an environmental organization no one had heard of hand-delivered a petition to the Environmental Protection Agency, asking it to restrict greenhouse gas emissions from new cars. The Clean Air Act authorized the EPA to regulate “any air pollutant” thought to endanger public health. But could carbon dioxide really be considered a harmful pollutant? And even if the EPA had the authority to regulate emissions, could it be forced to do so? The Rule of Five tells the dramatic story of how Joe Mendelson and the band of lawyers who joined him carried his case all the way to the Supreme Court. It reveals how accident, infighting, luck, superb lawyering, politics, and the arcane practices of the Supreme Court collided to produce a legal miracle. The final ruling in Massachusetts v. EPA, by a razor-thin 5–4 margin brilliantly crafted by Justice John Paul Stevens, paved the way to important environmental safeguards which the Trump administration fought hard to unravel and many now seek to expand. “There’s no better book if you want to understand the past, present, and future of environmental litigation.” —Elizabeth Kolbert, author of The Sixth Extinction “A riveting story, beautifully told.” —Foreign Affairs “Wonderful...A master class in how the Supreme Court works and, more broadly, how major cases navigate through the legal system.” —Science
Legislative Calendar
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public WorksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
The Republican Reversal
Author: James Morton TurnerPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 067498949X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
Not long ago, Republicans could take pride in their party’s tradition of environmental leadership. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the GOP helped to create the Environmental Protection Agency, extend the Clean Air Act, and protect endangered species. Today, as Republicans denounce climate change as a “hoax” and seek to dismantle the environmental regulatory state they worked to build, we are left to wonder: What happened? In The Republican Reversal, James Morton Turner and Andrew C. Isenberg show that the party’s transformation began in the late 1970s, with the emergence of a new alliance of pro-business, libertarian, and anti-federalist voters. This coalition came about through a concerted effort by politicians and business leaders, abetted by intellectuals and policy experts, to link the commercial interests of big corporate donors with states’-rights activism and Main Street regulatory distrust. Fiscal conservatives embraced cost-benefit analysis to counter earlier models of environmental policy making, and business tycoons funded think tanks to denounce federal environmental regulation as economically harmful, constitutionally suspect, and unchristian, thereby appealing to evangelical views of man’s God-given dominion of the Earth. As Turner and Isenberg make clear, the conservative abdication of environmental concern stands out as one of the most profound turnabouts in modern American political history, critical to our understanding of the GOP’s modern success. The Republican reversal on the environment is emblematic of an unwavering faith in the market, skepticism of scientific and technocratic elites, and belief in American exceptionalism that have become the party’s distinguishing characteristics.
Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents
Author: Hearing on the Nominations of Lisa P. Jackson to be Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Nancy Helen Sutley to be Chairman of the Council of Environmental Quality
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public WorksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Hearing on the Nominations of Kathleen Hartnett White to be Member of the Council on Environmental Quality and Andrew Wheeler to be Deputy Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public WorksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
Hearing on the Nominations of Michael Dourson, Matthew Leopold, David Ross, and William Wehrum to be Assistant Administrators of the Environmental Protection Agency and Jeffery Baran to be a Member of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public WorksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 976
Book Description