The only published work that treats the historical evolution of EPA enforcement, this book provides a candid inside glimpse of a crucial aspect of the work of an important federal agency. Based on 190 personal interviews with present and former enforcement officials at EPA, the U.S. Department of Justice, and key congressional staff members—along with extensive research among EPA documents and secondary sources—the book vividly recounts the often tumultuous history of EPA’s enforcement program. It also analyzes some important questions regarding EPA’s institutional relationships and the Agency’s working environment. This revised and updated edition adds substantial new chapters examining EPA enforcement during the Clinton and George W. Bush administrations. Its treatment of issues of civil service decline and the applicability of captive agency theory is also new and original.

Enforcement at the EPA: High Stakes and Hard Choices, Revised Edition

Science & Math

Mintz, Joel A.

Nature & Ecology

University of Texas Press

This book offers the first comprehensive history of a difficult and often neglected part of EPA's responsibilities - the enforcement of federal environmental standards. Drawing on extensive interviews with the political appointees, administrators, and staff who have provided the agency's direction, as well as his own professional experience with EPA, Joel A. Mintz explores the historical evolution of the agency's enforcement program, its institutional setting within the larger political arena, and its current strengths and shortcomings. This history will be important reading for students of political science, public policy, environmental law, administrative law, anthropology, sociology, and related fields. It should also be read by attorneys who represent parties in enforcement cases initiated by EPA, by the agency's own managers and professional staff, and by public citizens concerned with environmental issues.

Enforcement at the EPA: High Stakes and Hard Choices

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Earth Sciences

Expert authors summarize state and local government revenue sources from real estate taxes, personal property taxes, income taxes, sales taxes, license fees, and special assessments. Text examines state and local government expenditures, including budgetary requirements, collective bargaining, employee salaries, spending limits, and school finance requirements. State and local government debt financing and capital expenditures are also discussed.

State and Local Taxation and Finance in a Nutshell (Nutshell Series)

Salsich, Peter W.

Gelfand, M. David

Tax Law

West Academic

The Fourth Edition of Environmental Law provides a contemporary treatment of the current environmental law issues, while retaining the classic environmental law cases. In the tradition of prior editions, the authors sparingly edit judicial opinions, to provide not only the substance of the case, but also the court's mode of expression and the full ambience of the decision in its original legal context. Notes and questions interspersed throughout the text stimulate classroom discussions of significant issues and topics.
The doctrinally balanced treatment and organization of the materials promote optimal teaching flexibility. The authors have purposely avoided casting the work in any particular doctrinal or theoretical perspective. The primary objective is to familiarize students with the major areas of the law and to provide them with a sound basis for analyzing the complex legislation and legal materials of the field. To accommodate individual course structures, the chapter sequence allows faculty to rearrange major topics and chapters in whatever way is most useful. Topics frequently cross-reference Grad's Treatise on Environmental Law for those wishing to pursue some topics in greater detail. However, this book remains very comprehensive in its treatment of each of the subject areas.
This Fourth Edition includes significant developments on standing to sue, citizen suits, the application of NEPA, land use controls, application of the Fifth Amendment to regulatory takings, Superfund law, the new field of environmental justice, and new modes of environmental enforcement not relying entirely on command and control. This book also addresses new environmental concerns such as the control of ozone layer depleting gases, the control of acid depositions, and other emerging problems in the control of air toxins.

Environmental Law (Casebook Series)

Grad, Frank P.

Environmental & Natural Resources Law

Carolina Academic Pr

The book is divided into seven chapters, each focused on a discrete aspect of state and local borrowing: 
<ul>
<li>Borrowing instruments </li>
<li>Key players in the issuance of municipal bonds </li>
<li>Rating agencies </li>
<li>State law limitations on local government borrowing </li>
<li>Regulation of municipal securities </li>
<li>Federal taxation of municipal debt </li>
<li>Issues and procedures in municipal finance litigation </li>
</ul>

Fundamentals of Municipal Finance, Second Edition

Business & Money

Rosenberg, Ronald H.

Economics

American Bar Association]

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