The War on the EPA

America's Endangered Environmental Protections

William M. Alley (Author) , Rosemarie Alley (Author)

The War on the EPA

America's Endangered Environmental Protections

William M. Alley (Author) , Rosemarie Alley (Author)

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As the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) passes the half century mark, the public is largely apathetic towards the need for environmental protections. Today’s problems are largely invisible, and to many people’s eyes, the environment looks like it’s doing just fine. The crippling smog and burning rivers of yesteryear are just a memory. In addition, Americans are repeatedly told that the EPA is hurting the economy, destroying jobs, and intruding into people’s private lives. The truth is far more complicated.
The War on the EPA: America’s Endangered Environmental Protections examines the daunting hurdles facing the EPA in its critical roles in drinking water, air and water pollution, climate change, and toxic chemicals. This book takes the reader on a journey into some of today’s most pressing environmental problems: toxic “forever chemicals” known as PFAS, pervasive agricultural pollution, dead zones in the Gulf of Mexico, and widespread air and water pollution from use of fossil fuels. Delving into the science, politics, and human dimension of these and other problems, the book illustrates the challenges of regulation through the EPA's first fifty years, how today’s war on science is undermining the scientific foundation upon which the agency’s legitimacy rests, and why a strong U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is more important than ever before.

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1 EPA 101

PART I: DRINKING WATER

2 Take It from the Tap

3 Environmental Justice

PART II: WATER POLLUTION

4 A Wicked Problem

5 Inconvenient Connections

PART III: AIR POLLUTION AND CLIMATE CHANGE

6 A Never-Ending Battle

7 Costs, Benefits, and Politics

8 Climate Change

PART IV: TOXIC CHEMICALS AND HAZARDOUS WASTE

9 Toxic Chemicals

10 The Forever Chemicals

11 Superfund

12 A Success Story

13 Resurrecting the EPA

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index

About the Authors

Product details

Published	Nov 14 2023
Format	Paperback
Edition	1st
Extent	304
ISBN	9781538190951
Imprint	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Dimensions	9 x 5 inches
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing

Author

William M. Alley

Author

Rosemarie Alley

In TheWar on the EPA, William M. Alley and Rosemarie Alley present an engaging and complex narrative to explain some of the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s greatest struggles in regulating air, water, and ground contamination, tracing especially the most recent challenges stemming from the war on science.

H-Net: Humanities and Social Science Reviews Online
Highly Recommended . . . Readers should underscore every sentence in this book . . . [Alley and Alley] unfold in chapter after chapter the ways in which regulations, negative attitudes about science, incompetence, and the public’s general unawareness of what is in their tap water are all problematic.

Choice Reviews
. . . the Alleys provide another smartly written text full of fact-based fervor . . . [whipping] through events in American history that will make readers cringe with horror . . . A fully sourced, clarion call for action that many will respond to.

Booklist
The Alleys have written a well-researched, articulate, and wide-rangingsurvey of environmental issues spanning the entire history of the agency. They combine William’s scientific expertise (he was chief of the Office of Groundwater for the U.S. Geological Survey) with Rosemarie’s professional writing skills to offer the reader a very fine and fluid narrative through technically and legally dense subject matter. It would be great supplemental material for an environmental policy or law course. Lawyers looking for a broader perspective, beyond their specialty, and a brief history of environmental regulations and the battles over same, would also benefit.

The Environmental Forum: Journal of the Environmental Law Institute
The War on the EPA is a war on science, the environment, and public health -- as William and Rosemarie Alley’s engaging new book carefully documents. It’s a must-read for scientists, advocates, policymakers, and citizens committed to safeguarding the integrity of our nation’s premier environmental protection institution.

Senator Tom Udall
If you care about the health of American families and the future of your children, then read this book. It will make you stand up, shout out, and take action to defend science and the EPA at a time when we are losing the battle against life-threatening pollution.

Gina McCarthy, former U.S. EPA Administrator (2013-2017)