Saving Our Environment from Washington
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How Congress Grabs Power, Shirks Responsibility, and Shortchanges the People
David Schoenbrod
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"A terrific, albeit disturbing, read. Only someone with Schoenbrod’s unique combination of legal, political, and practical expertise could write so insightfully about environmental politics."—Morris P. Fiorina, Stanford University
"David Schoenbrod’s vivid writing has made a difficult subject come alive. Regardless of your position on the environment—and I am not in total accord with him—his supporting arguments deserve extended discussion."—Edward I. Koch, former mayor, New York City
“An important and original contribution to the national debate on environmental policy. Schoenbrod’s rich and varied personal experience in the field powerfully brings home the policy issues he addresses.”—Gary Marchant, Center for the Study of Law, Science, and Technology, Arizona State University
“Schoenbrod fills the void between extreme arguments on both sides of environmental policy debates. His book advances the cause of more reasoned discussion in the nearly empty middle.”—James L. Huffman, Dean, Lewis & Clark Law School
"A terrific, albeit disturbing, read. Only someone with Schoenbrod’s unique combination of legal, political and practical expertise could write so insightfully about environmental politics."—Morris P. Fiorina, Wendt Family Professor of Political Science, Stanford University
"Schoenbrod argues that power should flow away from environmental regulators in Washington and toward state legislators. Even where I disagree with him, his arguments are elegant and forced me to think hard. This is what good books do, of course!"—Paul Portney, President, Resources for the Future
“Schoenbrod succeeds admirably in presenting a provocative analysis of the contemporary state of environmental law and policy. He makes a strong challenge to conventional wisdom.”—Richard B. Stewart, School of Law, Center on Environment and Land Use Law, New York University and former chairman of the board, Environmental Defense Fund
"The legal and policy communities owe a debt of gratitude to . . . Schoenbrod for outlining the alternate paths for environmental governance with scholarship, experience, eloquence, and passion."—G. Tracy Mehan III, Environmental Forum
"There is considerable merit to what Schoenbrod is calling for."—Leslie Carothers, Environmental Forum
"A captivating series of anecdotes. . . . Essential reading in the environmental policy canon, Saving Our Environment reinvigorates the regulatory debate by introducing a nuanced conception of federalism to a discipline long dominated by federal agency rulemaking."—Harvard Law Review
"Schoenbrod provides an entertaining and thought-provoking analysis of some of the pitfalls of current environmental regulation."—Madelaine R. Berg, New York Law Journal
"A powerful and far-reaching indictment of the nation's efforts at environmental regulation and the protection of the environment. What makes this book so significant and separates it from many critiques of the environmental movement is that author David Schoenbrod is an insider's insider. . . . Simply put, the nation would be better served if every journalist on the environmental beat and every TV talking head were required to read this book before turning the next environmental press release into another breathless scare story about the latest environmental or public health crisis. . . . It also happens to be accessible for anyone interested in the subject."—R.J. Smith, New York Post
“A scorching brief against the EPA and Congress’s capitulation to it.”—Nicholas Thompson, New York Sun
"With personal anecdote and scientific fact, Mr. Schoenbrod makes a compelling case that, by delegating lawmaking responsibility to government agencies, Congress has imposed huge costs on the economy and bad choices on the environment."—John Berlau, Wall Street Journal
Publication Date: August 22, 2006
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