Valuing clean air : the EPA and the economics of environmental protection / Charles Halvorson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Halvorson, Charles, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental policy--United States--History.

Environmental policy.

United States. Environmental Protection Agency--History.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (312 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour).

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2021]

Summary:

'Valuing Clean Air' offers a sustained historical study of the EPA. It argues for the role and the significance of environemental regulation in modern American history and explores the roots and evolution of environmental economics based on EPA archival material and rarely published interviews.

Contents:

Cover

Valuing Clean Air

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction: Save EPA

1. The Costs of Pollution

2. The Doer: The EPA and the Power in Implementation

3. A Balancing Act: Regulatory Review

4. Put the Profit Motive to Work: Regulatory Reform

5. Are You Tough Enough? Deregulation

6. Markets for Bads: Cap-​and-​Trade and the New Environmentalism

Epilogue: The EPA and a Changing Climate

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-753886-X

0-19-753887-8

0-19-753885-1

OCLC:

1204266452