9780300119848-0300119844-Saving Our Environment from Washington: How Congress Grabs Power, Shirks Responsibility, and Shortchanges the People

Saving Our Environment from Washington: How Congress Grabs Power, Shirks Responsibility, and Shortchanges the People

ISBN-13: 9780300119848
ISBN-10: 0300119844
Edition: 1
Author: David Schoenbrod
Publication date: 2006
Publisher: Yale University Press
Format: Paperback 320 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780300119848
ISBN-10: 0300119844
Edition: 1
Author: David Schoenbrod
Publication date: 2006
Publisher: Yale University Press
Format: Paperback 320 pages

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Saving Our Environment from Washington: How Congress Grabs Power, Shirks Responsibility, and Shortchanges the People (ISBN-13: 9780300119848 and ISBN-10: 0300119844), written by authors David Schoenbrod, was published by Yale University Press in 2006. With an overall rating of 4.5 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent Saving Our Environment from Washington: How Congress Grabs Power, Shirks Responsibility, and Shortchanges the People (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.14.

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A veteran environmentalist tells vivid tales of the environmental wars and arrives at a surprising conclusion.

Congress empowered the Environmental Protection Agency on the theory that only a national agency that is insulated from accountability to voters could produce the scientifically grounded pollution rules needed to save a careless public from its own filth. In this provocative book, David Schoenbrod explains how his experience as an environmental advocate brought him to this startling realization: letting EPA dictate to the nation is a mistake.


Through a series of gripping and illuminating anecdotes from his own career, the author reveals the EPA to be an agency that, under Democrats and Republicans alike, delays good rules, imposes bad ones, and is so big, muscle-bound, and remote that it does unnecessary damage to our society. EPA stays in power, he says, because it enables elected legislators to evade responsibility by hiding behind appointed bureaucrats. The best environmental rules—those that have done the most good—have come when Congress had to take responsibility or from states and localities rather than the EPA.


With the passion of an authentic environmentalist, Schoenbrod makes a sensible plea for “bottom-up” environmental protection now. The responsibility for pollution control belongs not in agencies but in legislatures, and usually not at the federal level but rather closer to home.

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