Chasing the Wind (eBook)

Regulating Air Pollution in the Common Law State

Noga Morag-Levine (Autor)

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2009
264 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-2585-1 (ISBN)

Infos

Noga Morag-Levine is Associate Professor of Law at Michigan State University's College of Law.

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The Federal Clean Air Act of 1970 is widely seen as a revolutionary legal response to the failures of the earlier common law regime, which had governed air pollution in the United States for more than a century. Noga Morag-Levine challenges this view, highlighting striking continuities between the assumptions governing current air pollution regulation in the United States and the principles that had guided the earlier nuisance regime. Most importantly, this continuity is evident in the centrality of risk-based standards within contemporary American air pollution regulatory policy. Under the European approach, by contrast, the feasibility-based technology standard is the regulatory instrument of choice. Through historical analysis of the evolution of Anglo-American air pollution law and contemporary case studies of localized pollution disputes, Chasing the Wind argues for an overhaul in U.S. air pollution policy. This reform, following the European model, would forgo the unrealizable promise of complete, perfectly tailored protection--a hallmark of both nuisance law and the Clean Air Act--in favor of incremental, across-the-board pollution reductions. The author argues that prevailing critiques of technology standards as inefficient and undemocratic instruments of "e;command and control"e; fit with a longstanding pattern of American suspicion of civil law modeled interventions. This distrust, she concludes, has impeded the development of environmental regulation that would be less adversarial in process and more equitable in outcome.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 10.1.2009
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Umweltrecht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: Absolute liability • Adjudication • Administrative Discretion • administrative law • Air Pollution • air pollution control act • Amendment • annoyance • attempt • Bay Area Air Quality Management District • Bituminous coal • By-law • carcinogen • Cass Sunstein • Chemical Industry • Clean Air Act (United States) • Clean Coal • Common Law • Consideration • Constitutionality • constitutional law • Cost–benefit analysis • court order • Criticism • Decree • de facto • defendant • De Minimis • Discretion • distrust • Economic Efficiency • Emission standard • Employment • Engineering • environmental justice • Environmental Policy • environmental protection • Exclusion • government agency • Hazard • Health effect • Ideology • Impediment (canon law) • implementation • incineration • injunction • inspectorate • Judicial Review • Jurisdiction • Jurisprudence • Law of Agency • Lawsuit • Legal burden of proof • Legislation • Legislature • Legitimacy (political) • Lochner v. New York • National Ambient Air Quality Standards • Necessity • nuisance • obstacle • odor • Particulates • Physician • plaintiff • Police • Police power (United States constitutional law) • Politics • Pollutant • pollution • pollution prevention • Precedent • Prosecutor • Provision (contracting) • Publication • Public nuisance • Public Participation • Public Policy • Ralph Nader • Recommendation (European Union) • Refining • Regime • Regulation • Regulatory Agency • Requirement • residence • risk assessment • Rule of Law • Scrubber • smelting • Statute • Sulfur Dioxide • Symptom • Technology • Tort • Uncertainty • United States Environmental Protection Agency • Urban renewal • vinyl chloride • World War II
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-2585-7 / 1400825857
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-2585-1 / 9781400825851