Beyond superfailure : America's toxics policy for the 1990s /: America's toxics policy for the 1990s. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Daniel Mazmanian, David Morell.
• Other Names: Mazmanian, Daniel A, 1945-; Morell, David
• Contents: 1. Past Lessons and Future Promises. The Legacy of Love Canal. Responding to Love Canal. Lessons of America's First Toxics Decade. The Four Stages of the First Toxics Decade. The Transformation to the Second Toxics Decade. From Ideas to Action: The Second Toxics Decade. What Is to Follow -- 2. Cleanup: Superfund or Superfailure? The CERCLA Process. Identifying Effects on Human Health. Who Pays? Federalism in Action. Criteria For Cleanup. Victim Compensation. Toward Improved Implementation of Superfund -- 3. How Clean Is Clean? A Case Study of the Nation's No. 1 Superfund Toxic Dump. A Simple Beginning. Creating a Toxic Soup. Building a Bathtub. Draining the Toxic Bathtub. Dueling Definitions. The Conflict Expands. Biting the Bullet. Health Anxieties. The Cleanup Continues -- 4. An Ounce of Prevention: Managing Today's Wastes Successfully. Defining Hazardous Wastes. The Regulatory Design of RCRA. RCRA's Early Years: Superfailure in New Garb. A Federal-State Partnership. The Transition Away from Land Disposal: A Review of RCRA Progress. Policy Learning and the 1984 HSWA Revisions. Land Disposal or Treatment? The Conundrum of Capacity Availability. RCRA Implementation, Round Two -- 5. Engineering Economics and Politics: Technologies for Safe Hazardous Waste Management. Safe Hazardous Waste Management Alternatives. The Technological Options. Constraints on the Development of Needed Capacity. Lessons from Abroad -- 6. Beyond Hazardous Waste: Sale Management of Hazardous and Toxic Materials. State Initiatives: Stronger Enforcement and Regulation. Federal Reporting and Monitoring of Hazardous Materials. Controlling Leaks from Underground Storage Tanks. Regulating Transportation of Hazardous Materials. Regulating Hazardous Air Pollutants. Toxics Populism: California's Proposition 65. Toxics Policy: From Revolution to Evolution -- 7. Just Say "No" -- Facility Siting and the Failure of Democratic Discourse. Why New Facilities Are Not Being Sited. Responses to the Failure to Site. A Framework for Successful Siting -- 8. Looking Forward: Effective Toxics Policy Agenda for the 1990s. Broad Strategies to Direct Decisions of Individual Firms. Positive-Action Permitting, Compliance, and Cleanup. A Community Contract for Siting a Single Facility. A Public Utility Model for Siting, Permitting, and Management. Regional Compacts and Management Strategies. Comprehensive Waste Management Through Auctions. Democratic Discourse and Toxics Policy.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 363.72/8756/0973; Pollution -- Government policy -- United States; Hazardous wastes -- Government policy -- United States; Environmental policy -- United States; Environmental policy; Hazardous wastes -- Government policy; Pollution -- Government policy; Sonderabfall; Umweltpolitik; Milieubeleid; Sonderabfall / Abfallentsorgung / USA; United States; USA; USA
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780429719561; 0429719566
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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