Toxic loopholes : failures and future prospects for environmental law / Craig Collins.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Collins, Craig (Craig Parks), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental law--United States.

Environmental law.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (v, 281 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The EPA was established to enforce the environmental laws Congress enacted during the 1970s. Yet today lethal toxins still permeate our environment, causing widespread illness and even death. Toxic Loopholes investigates these laws, and the agency charged with their enforcement, to explain why they have failed to arrest the nation's rising environmental crime wave and clean up the country's land, air and water. This book illustrates how weak laws, legal loopholes and regulatory negligence harm everyday people struggling to clean up their communities. It demonstrates that our current system of environmental protection pacifies the public with a false sense of security, dampens environmental activism, and erects legal barricades and bureaucratic barriers to shield powerful polluters from the wrath of their victims. After examining the corrosive economic and political forces undermining environmental law making and enforcement, the final chapters assess the potential for real improvement and the possibility of building cooperative international agreements to confront the rising tide of ecological perils threatening the entire planet.

Contents:

The EPA : policing or protecting polluters?

The Clean Air Act : gasping for breath

The Clean Water Act : up sh*t creek

Superfund and RCRA : toxic trash

TSCA : the toothless tiger

The Endangered Species Act : Noah's ark or Titanic?

Planetary problems : cooperation or collapse?

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-107-20793-2

0-511-84695-9

1-282-58598-3

9786612585982

0-511-84040-3

0-511-72855-7

0-511-72620-1

0-511-72950-2

0-511-72479-9

0-511-72760-7

OCLC:

630538128