Foundations of Environmental Law and Policy (Interdisciplinary Readers in Law Series)

This volume in the Interdisciplinary Readers in Law Series brings together 40 readings from lawyers, economists, environmentalists, and legal scholars, to help introduce readers to the major theoretical approaches in the field of environmental law and policy. The selections have been extensively edited to facilitate accessibility, and each chapter has an introduction highlighting the most important contributions of the readings. The chapters end with an extensive set of notes and questions, designed both to provide a deeper understanding of the readings, as well as to introduce and critique a broader set of perspectives.

Revesz, Richard L.

Environmental & Natural Resources Law

Oxford University Press

This volume in the Interdisciplinary Readers in Law series is a collection of 40 readings by lawyers, economists, environmentalists, and legal scholars, which introduce students to the major theoretical approaches in the field. The selections have been edited to facilitate accessibility, and each chapter includes an introduction highlighting the most important contributions of the readings. The chapters end with an extensive set of notes and questions, designed both to provide a deeper understanding of the readings as well as to introduce and critique a broader set of perspectives. This book can be used as a companion volume to the case materials used in a survey course on environmental law, as a textbook for law school seminars on environmental law and policy, and for undergraduate and graduate seminars on environmental policy in a variety of disciplines, including government, public policy, forestry, and resource management. This volume is part of the Interdisciplinary Readers in Law series (Roberta Romano, General Editor). Designed as a collection of supplementary texts for law school courses, the series collects important essays from leading lawyers, economists, political scientists, philosophers, historians, and legal scholars, reflecting the broad range of scholarship that informs contemporary law. Other volumes in the series include Foundations of Corporate Law (Roberta Romano, Editor) Foundations of Administrative Law (Peter Schuck, Editor), Foundations of Contract Law (Richard Craswell and Alan Schwartz, Editors), Foundations of Tort Law (Saul Levmore, Editor), and Foundations of Employment Discrimination Law (John J. Donohue III, Editor).

That America's natural environment has been degraded and despoiled over the past 25 years is beyond dispute. Nor has there been any shortage of reasons why-short-sighted politicians, a society built on over-consumption, and the dramatic weakening of environmental regulations. In Retaking Rationality, Richard L. Revesz and Michael A. Livermore argue convincingly that one of the least understood-and most important-causes of our failure to protect the environment has been a misguided rejection of reason. The authors show that environmentalists, labor unions, and other progressive groups have declined to participate in the key governmental proceedings concerning the cost-benefit analysis of federal regulations. As a result of this vacuum, industry groups have captured cost-benefit analysis and used it to further their anti-regulatory ends. Beginning in 1981, the federal Office of Management and Budget and the federal courts have used cost-benefit analysis extensively to determine which environmental, health, and safety regulations are approved and which are sent back to the drawing board. The resulting imbalance in political participation has profoundly affected the nation's regulatory and legal landscape. But Revesz and Livermore contend that economic analysis of regulations is necessary and that it needn't conflict with-and can in fact support-a more compassionate approach to environmental policy. Indeed, they show that we cannot give up on rationality if we truly want to protect our natural environment. Retaking Rationality makes clear that by embracing and reforming cost-benefit analysis, and by joining reason and compassion, progressive groups can help enact strong environmental and public health regulation.

Retaking Rationality: How Cost-Benefit Analysis Can Better Protect the Environment and Our Health

Livermore, Michael A.

Reviving Rationality: Saving Cost-Benefit Analysis for the Sake of the Environment and Our Health explains how Donald Trump destabilized the decades-long bipartisan consensus that federal agencies must base their decisions on evidence, expertise, and analysis. Administrative agencies, such asthe Securities and Exchange Commission and the Environmental Protection Agency, are charged by law with protecting values like stable financial markets and clean air. Decisions made by these agencies have wide-ranging consequences for the well-being of the American public, affecting everything fromthe safety of workplaces to access to the dream of home ownership.Under the Trump administration, agencies have been hampered in their ability to promote these missions by the conflicting ideological whims of a changing cast of political appointees and overwhelming pressure from well-connected interest groups. Inconvenient evidence has been ignored, experts havebeen sidelined, and analysis has been used to obscure facts, rather than inform the public. The results have included haphazard and incoherent policy, social division, defeats in court, a demoralized federal workforce, and a loss of faith in government's ability to respond to the pressing problemsfacing American society. The hard work of rebuilding a rational regulatory system will fall to future administrations. Norms that the Trump administration has broken should be repaired, and agencies should be set back on the path of reasoned, evidence-based decision making.

Reviving Rationality: Saving Cost-Benefit Analysis for the Sake of the Environment and Our Health

Environmental Law and Policy Statutory and Regulatory Supplement, 2004-2005 Edition

Foundation Press

Environmental Law and Policy: Problems, Cases, and Readings (University Casebook)

This casebook emphasizes environmental policy, as well as the structure and details of the federal environmental statutes. It focuses students’ attention on how tradeoffs between environmental goals and social goals are resolved in different and difficult contexts. The book pays close attention to the political context in which regulation takes place, looking at the impact of federal government, interest groups, and administrative agencies in the regulatory process. It examines current efforts to address climate change and regulate greenhouse gases through existing statutory frameworks. The casebook includes substantial introductions and extensive notes and questions to guide classroom discussion. The book has been updated primarily to underscore the importance of the regulation of greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act.

Environmental Law and Policy, 3d (University Casebook Series)

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Foundations of Environmental Law and Policy (Interdisciplinary Readers in Law Series)

Foundations of Environmental Law and Policy (Interdisciplinary Readers in Law Series)

Retaking Rationality: How Cost-Benefit Analysis Can Better Protect the Environment and Our Health

Reviving Rationality: Saving Cost-Benefit Analysis for the Sake of the Environment and Our Health

Retaking Rationality: How Cost-Benefit Analysis Can Better Protect the Environment and Our Health

Environmental Law and Policy Statutory and Regulatory Supplement, 2004-2005 Edition

Environmental Law and Policy: Problems, Cases, and Readings (University Casebook)

Environmental Law and Policy, 3d (University Casebook Series)