Open for Business: Conservatives' Opposition to Environmental Regulation

by Judith A. Layzer

Book Overview

A detailed analysis of the policy effects of conservatives' decades-long effort to dismantle the federal regulatory framework for environmental protection.

Since the 1970s, conservative activists have invoked free markets and distrust of the federal government as part of a concerted effort to roll back environmental regulations. They have promoted a powerful antiregulatory storyline to counter environmentalists' scenario of a fragile earth...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262526026
• ISBN13: 9780262526029
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 520 Pages
• Weight: 1.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.7" x 8.8"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher