William M. Alley, Rosemarie Alley

The War on the EPA (eBook, ePUB)

America's Endangered Environmental Protections

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 292
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781538131510
• Artikelnr.: 58302541

Autorenporträt

William (Bill) M. Alley, PhD, is an internationally-recognized authority on groundwater and an environmental science writer. He was Chief, Office of Groundwater for the U.S. Geological Survey for almost two decades. Bill currently serves as director of science and technology for the National Ground Water Association.

Inhaltsangabe

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