Enforcement at the EPA : high stakes and hard choices / by Joel A. Mintz.
2012
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Author
Title
Enforcement at the EPA : high stakes and hard choices / by Joel A. Mintz.
Published
Austin : University of Texas Press, 2012.
Call Number
GE180 .M56 2012
Edition
Revised edition.
ISBN
9780292728400 (cloth : alk. paper)
0292728409 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780292737112 (ebook, library)
0292737114 (ebook, library)
9780292742819 (ebook, other)
0292742819 (ebook, other)
0292728409 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780292737112 (ebook, library)
0292737114 (ebook, library)
9780292742819 (ebook, other)
0292742819 (ebook, other)
Description
viii, 313 pages ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)781765021
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [247]-304) and index.
Record Appears in
Government Document Classification Number
Z UA380.8 M668EN
Variant Title
Enforcement at the Environmental Protection Agency.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
vii
1.
Introduction
1
2.
"Where the Rubber Hits the Road and Everything Else Hits the Fan": A Brief Description of EPA's Enforcement Process and the Superfund Program
9
3.
Heavy Seas before the Maelstrom: EPA Enforcement in the 1970s
21
4.
Destruction, Confusion, Confrontation, and Disarray: EPA Enforcement and Congressional Oversight in the Gorsuch Era
41
5.
"Away from the Brink"---But Not Out of the Woods: EPA Enforcement from 1983 to 1989
62
6.
Modest Progress and Renewed Suspicion: EPA Enforcement in the Bush I Administration
87
7.
"Neither the Best of Times nor the Worst of Times": EPA Enforcement during the Clinton Administration
104
8.
Suspicions, Schisms, and Partial Revival: EPA Enforcement during the Bush II Administration
140
9.
Lessons Learned: Some Observations on Congressional Oversight, Organizational Structure, Management Approaches, and Career Staff Trends
184
10.
Did Industry Capture EPA Enforcement? Captive Agency Theory and Its (Partial) Applicability
203
11.
EPA Enforcement in the Context of Federal Civil Service Decline
224
Appendix A
Persons Interviewed
232
Appendix B
Government Service Job Titles of Individuals Interviewed by Author
237
Appendix C
Standard Interview Questionnaire in Interviews Prior to 2003
244
Appendix D
Standard Interview Questions Asked in All Interviews Beginning in 2003
246
Notes
247
Index
305