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1 online resource (xiv, 259 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-247) and index. |
| Contents |
Preface; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; CHAPTER ONE: Regulating Air Pollution: Risk- and Technology-Based Paradigms; CHAPTER TWO: "Command and Control": Means, Ends, and Democratic Regulation; CHAPTER THREE: Regulating "Noxious Vapours": From Aldred's Case to the Alkali Act; CHAPTER FOUR: On the "Police State" and the "Common Law State"; CHAPTER FIVE: From Richards's Appeal to Boomer: Judicial Responses to Air Pollution, 1869-1970; CHAPTER SIX: "Inspected Smoke": The Perpetual Mobilization Regime; CHAPTER SEVEN: "Odors," Nuisance, and the Clean Air Act. |
| Summary |
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 Eu. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Air -- Pollution -- Law and legislation -- United States.
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Air -- Pollution -- Law and legislation. |
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United States. |
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Pollution -- Law and legislation -- United States.
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Pollution -- Law and legislation. |
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Morag-Levine, Noga. Chasing the wind. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, ©2003 (DLC) 2002035552 |
| ISBN |
9781400825851 (electronic book) |
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1400825857 (electronic book) |
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0691123810 |
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9780691123813 |
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9780691094816 (cl ; acid-free paper) |
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0691094810 (cl ; acid-free paper) |
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9780691123813 |
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0691094810 (cl ; acid-free paper) |
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