An Interactive History of the Clean Air Act

• Author : Jonathan M Davidson,Joseph M Norbeck
• Publisher : Elsevier
• Release : 01 December 2011

The Clean Air Act of 1970 set out for the United States a basic, yet ambitious, objective to reduce pollution to levels that protect health and welfare. The Act set out state and federal regulations to limit emissions and the Environmental Protection Agency was established to help enforce the regulations. The Act has since had several amendments, notably in 1977 and 1990, and has successfully helped to increase air quality. This book reviews the history of the Clean Air Act of 1970 including the

• Author : Jonathan Davidson,Joseph M Norbeck
• Publisher : Elsevier
• Release : 05 December 2011

The Clean Air Act of 1970 set out for the United States a basic, yet ambitious, objective to reduce pollution to levels that protect health and welfare. The Act set out state and federal regulations to limit emissions and the Environmental Protection Agency was established to help enforce the regulations. The Act has since had several amendments, notably in 1977 and 1990, and has successfully helped to increase air quality. This book reviews the history of the Clean Air Act of 1970 including the

• Author : J. Barry Cullingworth,Roger Caves
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 05 December 2013

This extensively revised and updated fourth edition of Planning in the USA continues to provide a comprehensive introduction to the policies, theory and practice of planning. Outlining land use, urban planning, and environmental protection policies, this fully illustrated book explains the nature of the planning process and the way in which policy issues are identified, defined, and approached. This full colour edition incorporates new planning legislation and regulations at the state and federal layers of government, updated discussion on current

• Author : Steven L. Danver
• Publisher : CQ Press
• Release : 25 April 2013

The Encyclopedia of Politics in the American West is an A to Z reference work on the political development of one of America’s most politically distinct, not to mention its fastest growing, region. This work will cover not only the significant events and actors of Western politics, but also deal with key institutional, historical, environmental, and sociopolitical themes and concepts that are important to more fully understanding the politics of the West over the last century.

• Author : John Robert Greene
• Publisher : University Press of Kansas
• Release : 19 June 2015

After George H. W. Bush lost his re-election bid to Bill Clinton in 1992, John Robert Greene's verdict on the 41st president of the United States was that he "brought no discredit to the office" and "was both patient and prudent. . . mak [ing] few mistakes." In the years since the release of Greene's profile of the senior Bush, deemed by Publishers Weekly, "the essential introduction to Bush's abbreviated, but still consequential, tenure in office," a wealth of materials about Bush's presidency

• Author : Levi Tillemann
• Publisher : Simon and Schuster
• Release : 19 January 2016

The Great Race recounts the exciting story of a century-long battle among automakers for market share, profit, and technological dominance—and the thrilling race to build the car of the future. The world’s great manufacturing juggernaut—the $3 trillion automotive industry—is in the throes of a revolution. Its future will include cars Henry Ford and Karl Benz could scarcely imagine. They will drive themselves, won’t consume oil, and will come in radical shapes and sizes. But the path

• Author : Jen Schneider,Steve Schwarze,Peter K. Bsumek,Jennifer Peeples
• Publisher : Springer
• Release : 10 May 2016

This book examines five rhetorical strategies used by the US coal industry to advance its interests in the face of growing economic and environmental pressures: industrial apocalyptic, corporate ventriloquism, technological shell game, hypocrite’s trap, and energy utopia. The authors argue that these strategies appeal to and reinforce neoliberalism, a discourse and set of practices that privilege market rationality and individual freedom and responsibility above all else. As the coal industry has become the leading target and leverage point for

• Author : John McCormick
• Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
• Release : 18 October 2017

This book provides systematic coverage of the key concepts in the study of environmental politics; the evolution of environmental thinking; the national and international actors involved in environmental policy; and a selection of specific environmental problems including their causes, the challenges and results of addressing them to date.

• Author : Peter Y. Burke
• Publisher : Academic Press
• Release : 09 November 2016

Technical Career Survival Handbook: 100 Things You Need To Know provides the information needed to survive a technical career, enabling prospective technical career candidates and those currently in technical careers to explore all technical education possibilities, industries, disciplines, and specialties. This handbook better equips the reader to deal with the tough situations and decisions they have to make throughout their career. Topics include preparing for the workforce, employment challenges, and dealing with on the job situations. This book is a practical

• Author : Jerry Apps,Natasha Kassulke
• Publisher : Fulcrum Publishing
• Release : 18 April 2023

A first-of-its-kind handbook, allowing the reader to combine the processes of critical and creative thinking with a detailed discussion of the environmental challenges facing our planet Planting an Idea is part guidebook for better critical and creative thinking and part overview of the environmental challenges that face our planet today. It is designed to help readers young and old examine and develop opinions on a variety of environmental issues based on substance, creativity, and fact. Apps and Kassulke take the

• Author : Robert V. Percival
• Publisher : Aspen Publishers
• Release : 03 June 1996

Look for important coverage of the most current issues in Environmental Law -- environmental enforcement, risk assessment, reinventing regulation, federalism, and environmental justice - in the second edition of Percival, Miller, Schroeder, and Leape's highly successful ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION: Law, Science, and Policy. The book offers balanced coverage of air, water, and toxics, with additional emphasis on key topics like waste management, public resources, and international environmental law. Key changes to this Second Edition include: new chapter on environmental enforcement, including

• Author : Robert L. Glicksman,David L. Markell,William W. Buzbee,Daniel R. Mandelker,Daniel Bodansky,Emily Hammond (Law teacher)
• Publisher : Aspen Publishers
• Release : 03 June 2023

When you purchase a new version of this casebook from the LIFT Program, you receive 1-year FREE digital access to the corresponding Examples & Explanations in your course area. Now available in an interactive study center, Examples & Explanations offer hypothetical questions complemented by detailed explanations that allow you to test your knowledge of the topics covered in class. Starting July 1, 2017, if your new casebook purchase does not come with an access code on the inside cover of the book, please contact

• Author : Barry L. Johnson,Maureen Y. Lichtveld
• Publisher : CRC Press
• Release : 24 October 2017

As with the first edition, this second edition describes how environmental health policies are developed, the statutes and other policies that have evolved to address public health concerns associated with specific environmental hazards, and the public health foundations of the policies. It lays out policies for what is considered the major environmental physical hazards to human health. Specifically, the authors describe hazards from air, water, food, hazardous substances, and wastes. To this list the authors have added the additional concerns

• Author : Leah S. Glaser
• Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
• Release : 03 June 2023

This book will help museums and historic sites interpret historic energy use within cultural contexts.

• Author : Tim Delaney,Tim Madigan
• Publisher : McFarland
• Release : 28 June 2021

This book approaches environmentalism via two academic disciplines, sociology and philosophy. Both have concerns about the environment's ability not only to sustain itself but to thrive. The authors argue that rather than simple sustainability, we must promote thrivability for the sake of protecting the environment and all living things. In this greatly expanded second edition, the authors have updated data and examples, introduced new topics and concepts, and emphasized the need to lessen our dependence on fossil fuels. Numerous topics