Chasing the wind : regulating air pollution in the common law state

Chasing the wind : regulating air pollution in the common law state /

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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Main Author: Morag-Levine, Noga
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, ©2003.
Subjects:
Air > Pollution > Law and legislation > United States.
Pollution > Law and legislation > United States.
LAW > Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Affairs & Administration.
Air > Pollution > Law and legislation
Pollution > Law and legislation
United States
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Table of 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.

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