The Limits of Law: The Public Regulation of Private Pollution

by Peter Cleary Yeager and Peter C. Yeager

Book Overview

This book examines the systematic constraints on US law enforcement agencies' efforts to regulate business behaviour. It looks specifically at the postwar development of laws regulating water pollution and at the Environmental Protection Agency's efforts to enforce them. The discussion traces the factors leading to legal change and analyses the ways in which the impacts of environmental laws vary from their stated purposes and goals, even under relatively...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521448816
• ISBN13: 9780521448819
• Release Date: August 1993
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"