Chasing the Wind : Regulating Air Pollution in the Common Law State /

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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 a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Morag-Levine, Noga
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 2003.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Pollution > Law and legislation.
Air > Pollution > Law and legislation.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Affairs & Administration.
LAW > Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice.
Pollution > Law and legislation > United States.
Air > Pollution > Law and legislation > United States.
United States.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (264 pages).
ISBN:9781400825851

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