February 9, 2005. A New Progressive Agenda for Public Health and the Environment
New Book from Center for Progressive Regulation Maps Ambitious Environmental Agenda
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Regulatory Underkill: The Bush Administration's Insidious Dismantling of Public Health and Environmental Protections
Regulatory Underkill: The Bush Administration's Insidious Dismantling of Public Health and Environmental Protections, by William W. Buzbee, Robert L. Glicksman, Sidney A. Shapiro and Karen Sokol. White Paper 503, February 2005.
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Author(s): William Buzbee, Robert Glicksman, Sidney Shapiro, Karen Sokol
A New Progressive Agenda for Public Health and the Environment
Writing for the Center for American Progress website, Christopher Schroeder and Rena Steinzor, co-editors of CPR's book, A New Progressive Agenda for Public Health and the Environment, offer a summary of the work, which features contributions from 20 CPR Member Scholars.
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Author(s): Christopher Schroeder, Rena Steinzor
Politics and Precaution
Politics and Precaution, op-ed by William Buzbee
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Author(s): William Buzbee
A New Progressive Agenda for Public Health and the Environment, a project of the Center for Progressive Regulation.
A New Progressive Agenda for Public Health and the Environment, a project of the Center for Progressive Regulation. A brief summary of policy recommendations from CPR's A New Progressive Agenda for Public Health and the Environment. White Paper 501, January 2005.
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Author(s): Christopher Schroeder, Rena Steinzor
CPR Perspective: The Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment
CPR Perspective: 'The Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment,' by Bill Funk. CPR's Perspectives Series is a set of monographs by CPR Member Scholars on timely and important health, safety, and environmental topics. Each Perspective provides a thumbnail sketch of the competing arguments concerning a substantive or procedural principle for developing appropriate health, safety and environmental policies, and closes with the Member Scholar-author's proposed approach to the issue.
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Author(s): Bill Funk
Maryland Water Standards a Quarter Century Late and Counting
On the Center for American Progress website, Rena Steinzor writes that Maryland's Department is moving "ever so glacially toward developing enforceable standards for a key provision of the Clean Water Act."
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Author(s): Rena Steinzor
The Feasibility Principle
The Feasibility Principle, by David Driesen, first in a series of papers outline alternatives to cost-benefit analysis. White Paper 407, December 2004.
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Author(s): David Driesen
States Fail to Ensure Water Quality
Clifford Rechtschaffen, writing on the Center for American Progress website: "The federal government relies in great measure on state agencies to enforce many of the key provisions of the Clean Water Act, including the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES), a system by which polluters are issued permits to emit specific quantities of pollution into waterways. The sorry truth is that the system doesn't work very well, and enforcement of NPDES provisions is inadequate. That's the conclusion I'm forced to draw from a survey of state environmental protection agencies I conducted earlier this year."
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Author(s): Clifford Rechtschaffen