| Main Title |
The Environmental Protection Agency : cleaning up America's act / |
| Author |
Collin, Robert W.,
|
| Publisher |
Greenwood Press, |
| Year Published |
2006 |
| Stock Number |
BRO-copy20060605-129 |
| OCLC Number |
61247143 |
| ISBN |
0313333416; 9780313333415 |
| Subjects |
Environmental protection--United States ;
Umweltschutz--(DE-588)4061644-7 ;
USA--(DE-588)4078704-7
|
| Additional Subjects |
United States--Environmental Protection Agency ;
USA--Environmental Protection Agency--(DE-588)4246101-7
|
| Holdings |
| Library |
Call Number |
Additional Info |
Location |
Last
Modified |
Checkout
Status |
| EJCM |
Environmental Law |
|
Law Library/Washington,DC |
10/24/2017 |
| EKBM |
TD171.C64 2006 |
|
Research Triangle Park Library/RTP, NC |
01/01/1988 |
| ERAM |
TD171.C64 2006 |
c.1 |
Region 9 Library/San Francisco,CA |
10/12/2017 |
STATUS |
| ERAM |
TD171.C64 2006 |
c.2 |
Region 9 Library/San Francisco,CA |
10/12/2017 |
| ESAM |
TD171.C64 2006 |
|
Region 10 Library/Seattle,WA |
01/27/2006 |
|
| Collation |
xxxvii, 385 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. |
| Notes |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-365) and index. |
| Contents Notes |
1. A brief history of the Environmental Protection Agency and its powers -- Basic organizational structure -- Council on Environmental Quality -- Administrative law judges -- Environmental Appeals Board -- The laws implemented by the EPA -- Asbestos Hazard Emergency Response Act -- Chemical Safety Information, Site Security, and Fuels Regulatory Relief Act -- Clean Air Act -- Clean Water Act and Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1972 -- Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act -- Endangered Species Act -- Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act -- Food Quality Protection Act -- Lead Contamination Control Act -- Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act -- National Environmental Education Act -- National Environmental Policy Act -- Oil Pollution Act -- Pollution Prevention Act -- Residential Lead-based Paint Hazard Reduction Act -- Resource Conservation and Recovery Act -- Safe Drinking Water Act -- Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act -- Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act -- Toxic Substances Control Act -- International EPA engagement. 2. Notable cases affecting the EPA -- Judicial standing requirements -- Review of administrative decisions -- Citizen suits -- Judicial intervention -- EPA authority -- Contents of environmental impact statement -- Hazardous waste -- Solid waste -- Air quality -- Intergovernmental communications and conflict resolution -- When the EPA is furloughed -- 3. Controversies and Issues -- Love Canal and the Hooker Chemical Company -- Exxon Valdez : oil spilled -- Oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge : oil drilled? -- Three Mile Island : radiation leaked -- Disposal of nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain : radiation disposed? -- Best available control technology vs. most economical pollution control technology -- Environmental justice : Warren County and the Shintech controversies -- Cities, the EPA, brownfields, portfields, and grayfields. 4. Traditions and culture of the EPA -- Beginning policies : 1970-1973 -- Dynamic priorities : environmental protection, public health, and the economy -- The ethos of cleaning up the environment -- Potentially responsible parties -- Children's health protection -- Cancer -- Science and risk assessment -- Science advisory board -- Environmental modeling -- Science and legislation at the EPA -- Measurement science -- Unfinished business -- The Relative Risk Reduction Strategies Committee -- Release of environmental equity report -- Cumulative risks -- Role of federal advisory committees -- The legal framework for EPA advisory committees -- Advisory committee performance -- How the EPA uses FACA to achieve collaboration -- Environmental enforcement approach for facilitation of compliance -- Sector-based approaches at the EPA -- Compliance monitoring -- EPA's audit policy -- Audit protocols -- Traditions and culture from National Environmental Policy Act -- Supplemental environmental projects. 5. Organization and day-to-day activities -- Administrative law judges -- Alternative dispute resolution in the Office of Administrative Law Judges -- Congressional and intergovernmental relations -- Environmental Appeals Board -- Homeland security -- Policy, economic, and innovation -- Public affairs -- The Science Advisory Board -- Office of Air and Radiation -- American Indian Environmental Office -- Internal EPA operations -- Strategic plan -- 2003-2008 EPA strategic plan : direction for the future -- Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance -- Office of the Inspector general -- Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics -- Office of Research and Development -- Office of Water -- EPA regions and relationships with states -- Permit issuance and enforcement -- Environmental impact statements -- Policy development -- Public involvement -- -- Definitions of the stakeholder involvement terms -- How the public can learn about waste and chemicals. 6. Future challenges for the EPA -- Community-based environmental planning -- Environmental justice -- The Federal Interagency Working Group on Environmental Justice -- Individual case studies -- The EPA Environmental Equity Work Group -- National Environmental Justice Advisory Council overview -- Sustainability -- Regional environmental vulnerability assessments at EPA -- Current EPA programs related to sustainability -- Cumulative emissions and risks -- The beginning -- Aggregate exposure and risk assessment -- Assessing cumulative risk -- Ecosystem approaches -- 7. Biographies of important EPA administrators -- 8. Chronology of key events -- Appendix 1. Executive Order 12898 : "environmental justice" : federal actions to address environmental justice in minority populations and low-income populations -- Appendix 2. Principles of environmental justice. |
| Place Published |
Westport, Conn. |
| Title Ser Add Ent |
Understanding our government. |
| PUB Date Free Form |
2006 |
| Series Title Traced |
Understanding our government, |
| Series Title Untraced |
Understanding our government, |
| BIB Level |
m |
| Medium |
unmediated |
| Content |
text |
| Carrier |
volume |
| Cataloging Source |
OCLC/T |
| LCCN |
2005022203 |
| OCLC Time Stamp |
20171017054954 |
| Language |
eng |
| Origin |
OCLC |
| Type |
CAT |
| OCLC Rec Leader |
06976cam 22006014a 45010 |
