Environmental politics and policy / Walter A. Rosenbaum.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rosenbaum, Walter A., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental policy--United States.

Environmental policy.

Physical Description:

xxi, 327 pages : graphs, maps, portrait ; 23 cm

Edition:

12th edition.

Place of Publication:

Thousand Oaks, California : CQ Press, an imprint of SAGE Publications, Inc., [2023]

Summary:

"Walter A. Rosenbaum’s classic Environmental Politics and Policy, Twelfth Edition, provides definitive coverage of environmental politics and policy, lively case material, and a balanced assessment of current environmental issues. The newly streamlined first half of the book sets needed context and describes the policy process, while the second half covers specific environmental issues such as air and water, toxic and hazardous substances, energy, and global policymaking on issues like climate change and trans-boundary politics. The Twelfth Edition includes updated case studies and a look at the transition in environmental policies between the Trump and Biden administrations, offering students a current and relevant look at the continuing challenge of reconciling sound science with practical politics."--Publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 After Earth Day

"Frack, Baby, Frack"

A Spreading Technology

Contested Environmental Impacts

Neighbor Against Neighbor

Governments in Conflict

A Continuing Controversy

America's Environmental Legacy

The Evolution of U.S. Environmentalist

The Environmental Decade: From Richard Nixon to Ronald Reagan

Policy Deadlock: From Ronald Reagan to George H. W. Bush

Environmental Leadership Revived: From George W. Bush to Barack Obama

A Collision of Expectations: The Obama Presidency

A Radical Redirection: The Trump Administration Environmental Agenda

Ongoing Challenges: Present and Future

Keeping Environmentalism Contemporary

Modernizing Environmental Laws

Implementing Policy

Controlling Costs

Responding to Evolving Science

The Challenge of Sustainability

Sustainability and Federal Policy

State and Local Government Initiatives

Sustainability's Many Meanings

Plan for the Book

Conclusion

ch. 2 Making Policy

The Process

Protecting the Bee: The Pathways of Policy

Multiple Agencies Deliberate

Pressure Groups Mobilize

Scientific Controversy Prevails

The Courts Intervene

Contested Policy Is Created

Policymaking Is a Process

The Policy Cycle

Agenda Setting

Formulation and Legitimation

Implementation

Impact and Reformulation

Termination

Policymaking Is a Combination of Phases

Constitutional Constraints

Checks and Balances

Regulatory Federalism

Organized Interests

Incrementalism

Interest Group Politics

Structuring Groups Into Government

Business: Secure and Effective Access

Environmentalism's Access

The Environmental Movement: Confronting the Challenge of Change

Strategies and Tactics

Ideological Consensus and Cleavage

Essential Principles

The Ideological Mainstream

Deep Ecologists

Radical Environmentalism

Organizational Structures and Strategies

Environmental Group Membership

The Organizational Mainstream

Environmentalists and the Politics of Procedure

Environmentalism and Political Engagement

Environmentalism and Its Critics

Public Interest or Self-interest?

Pressure Politics: Constructive Opposition and Destructive Obstruction?

The Public and Environmentalism

A Core Value

How Deep and Broad Is Public Environmentalism?

The Special Place of Science in Policymaking

Science as Law

Science as Politics

Policy Pressures and the Scientific Method

ch. 3 Making Policy

Governmental Institutions and Politics

The Water War Called WOTUS

Creating WOTUS

"The Water War"

The White House Acts

The Water War Revives

Trump, Biden, and the Continuing Water War

The Presidency

Presidential Resources

Constitutional Powers

Surprise, Crisis, and the Presidency

The Executive Office of the President

Council on Environmental Quality

Congress: Too Much Check, Too Little Balance

The Statutory Setting

Committee Decentralization

Localism

Elections

"Ready, Fire, Aim": Crisis Decision-Making

Guidance: Too Much and Too Little

Partisan Polarization and Political Stalemate

The Bureaucracy: Power Through Implementation

The Power to Choose

Bureaucratic Competition

The Environmental Protection Agency

Statutory Responsibilities

Micromanaged and Overloaded

Needed: Clear Priorities

An Embattled EPA: The Trump Regulatory Reform

The Department of the Interior

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission

The Department of Energy

The Courts: The Role of Appraisal

The Courts and Environmental Policy

Litigation as a Political Tactic

When Should Judges Become Involved?

The Political Environment of Environmental Policymaking

Changing Party Majorities

Shifting Public Moods

Economic Change

ch. 4 Common Policy Challenges

Risk Assessment and Environmental Justice

A Toxic Nightmare From Toyland?

The Political Front

A Scientific Enigma

Barbie Gets a Green Makeover

The Controversy Continues

Risk Assessment and the Limits of Science

Derelict Data and Embattled Expertise

Missing Data

Late and Latent Effects

The Case of Dioxin

Animal and Epidemiological Experiments

The Limited Neutrality of Scientific Judgment

A Multitude of Risk Criteria

Risk Assessment Reconsidered: The Precautionary Principle

The Value of Science in Environmental Policymaking

Risk and Discrimination: The Problem of Environmental Justice

What Is Environmental Justice?

Science and Environment Justice

The Covid Pandemic

Climate Change and Extreme Weather

A Rapidly Growing Organizational Base

Environmental Justice and the Courts

The Challenge of Data Quality

Environmental Justice and Politics: The Case of Flint, Michigan

ch. 5 More Choice

The Battle Over Regulatory Economics

The Benefit-Cost Debate

A Long and Contentious History

The Battle Over Regulatory Impact Analyses

The Second Generation of Benefit-Cost Analysis

Many Varieties of Benefit-Cost Analysis

The Case for Benefit-Cost Analysis

The Case Against Benefit-Cost Analysis

Reality and Rhetoric

The Continuing Problems of Benefit-Cost Analysis

Some Lessons

The Emerging Problem of Environmental Valuation

Environmental Accounting

Contingent Valuation

Regulation Strategies: Command and Control Versus the Marketplace

Command-and-Controt Regulation

Goals

Criteria

Quality Standards

Emission Standards

Enforcement

What's Wrong With Command-and-Control?

Regulation Goes to the Market

ch. 6 Command and Control in Action

Air and Water Pollution Regulation

The Politics of Command-and-Control Regulation

Policymaking Beyond Public View

Political Pressure Points

The Politics of Enforcement

Regulating Air Quality

The Clean Air Act and the 1977 Amendments

The Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990

Current Controversies in Air-Quality Regulation

Science and Regulation: The Battle Over Soot Control

EPA Revises a Regulation

Regulated Interests Resist

The Federal Courts Intervene

The Particulate War Revives: Obama vs. Trump vs. Biden

Partisan Politics and Regulation: The Clean Power Plan

Proposed: Strict National CO2 Emissions Controls

The Controversy Enlarges

Regulating Water Quality

Surface Water

The Federal Water Pollution Control Amendments

The Political Setting

"This State's Gone Hog Wild": The Battle Over Concentrated Animal Farms

Concentrated Animal Farms Are Increasing

Regulatory Problems

A Stubborn Problem: Nonpoint Pollution

Nonpoint Pollution Control Is Politically and Technically Difficult

Groundwater

Many Programs. Many Governments, Many Agencies

Continuing Chemical Contamination

Drinking Water

ch. 7 A Regulatory Thicket

Toxic and Hazardous Substances

Toxic and Expensive: The Stringfellow Waste Site

The Growth of Federal Toxics Regulation

Chemicals: The Safe, Untested, and Toxic

A World of Chemicals

Toxic and Hazardous Chemicals

Two Chemical Risk Controversies

Gtyphosate: Cancer Risk From the Farm?

Endocrine Disrupters: Toxic Enough to Regulate?

Federal Law: Toxics Regulation From the Cradle to the Grave?

Regulating Chemical Manufacture and Distribution: The Toxic Substances Control Act

How TSCA Regulates

The Regulatory Burden

Publicizing Chemical Releases: The Toxics Release Inventory

Cleaning Up Abandoned Waste: Superfund

The National Priority List

"The Largest, Most Complicated, and Most Disliked"

Chemical Threat or Chemophobia?

The Food Quality Protection Act: Improved Pesticide Regulation

The NIMBY Problem

Federal and State Law Can Encourage NIMBYism

Distrust of Information Encourages NIMBYism

ch. 8 Energy

America's Energy Politics in Transformation

The Foundation: A Fossil Fuel Nation

Petroleum: A Revived Economy

Oil, the Outer Continental Shelf, and the Environment

The Outer Continental Shelf

The OCS and Environmental Controversy

Renewed Pressure for OCS Energy Production

Natural Gas and the Gas "Boom"

Domestic Resources: Increasing Supply and Demand

Natural Gas Is Replacing Coal

Fracking: "Almost a Miracle" or an Environmental Danger?

A Disputed Environmental Impact

Contested Environmental Regulations

Coal: The Promise and Perils of Abundance

The Trump Administration's New Regulatory Agenda

Coal and Climate Change

The Obama Clean Power Plan

The CPP Opposed and Suspended

The Difficult Search for Clean Coal

Surface Mining

The Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act

Surface Mining Has Been Intensely Controversial Wherever Practiced

The Restoration Gamble

An Emerging Issue. Coal Ash

Can Deregulation Revive the Coal Industry?

Fossil Fuel Alternatives: Nuclear Powerand Renewable Energy

Nuclear Power's Fading Renaissance

The Elusive Nuclear Revival

The Renewal of Hope

The Nuclear Dream Fades

Commercial Nuclear's Federal Patron

The Nuclear Industry Today

Continuing Safety Issues

The Continuing Problem of Nuclear Waste

The Battle of Yucca Mountain

An Alternative Waste Plan

Renewable Energy

Contents note continued: Washington Slowly Warms to Renewables

Renewables' Environmental Benefit

Conflicting Energy Policies: Trump Versus Obama

America's Increasing Renewable Energy

The Good Economic News About Renewables

Renewables Risks: Economic, Ecological. Technological

ch. 9 635 Million Acres of Politics

The Contested Resources of Public Lands

The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: Public Land Politics at a Boil

The ANWR's Multiple Purposes

The "Biological Heart" of the ANWR

Congress, the White House, and the ANWR

Stakeholders in the ANWR

The Department in the Middle

The Public Lands

An Immense Public Domain

An Unanticipated Bounty

Diversity Within the Public Domain

The Land-Use Agencies

The Forest Service

The Bureau of Land Management

Conflicts Over Multiple Use

The Multiple-Use Mandate

Multiple Stakeholders in Multiple Use

The Western States

Energy Users

Other Resource Users

Environmentalists and Environmental Impact Statements

The Fate of the Forests

A Disputed Treasure in Timber

The Greening of Forest Policy

Multiple-Use Conflicts and the Forests

The Northern Spotted Owl Versus the Timber Industry

How Much Wilderness Is Enough?

ch. 10 The Politics and Policy of Global Climate Change

A New Era of Climate Policy

Science and Climate Warming

The Science of Atmospheric Warming

The IPCC Reports

The U.S. National Climate Assessment

The Emissions Problem: Greenhouse Gases

Climate Change Dissenters

The Trump Administration Joins the Dissent

The White House Confronts the National Climate Assessment

The Domestic Politics of Climate Change

The Public, Voters, and Climate Change

The White House, Congress, and Climate Policy

The Difficult Quest for an International Climate Agreement

Early U.S. Climate Diplomacy

The Obama International Treaty Commitment

The Paris Accord

The Paris Agreement Rejected

Deadlock Over Domestic Climate Emission Controls

The Obama Climate Regulations Bypass Congress

Trump's EPA Replaces Obama's Clean Power Plan

The States and Climate Policy

The Uncertain Future of U.S. Climate Policy.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781071844519

1071844512

OCLC:

1311361516

Publisher Number:

99992394713