Pollution Law Handbook: A Guide to Federal Environmental Laws - Hardcover

Wolf, Sidney

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 089930141X ISBN 13: 9780899301419

Publisher: Praeger, 1988

Synopsis

This may be the book to guide advocates and citizens through our complex environmental laws. . . . Not a critique of the pollution laws, this is a detailed summary of their provisions, such as who is responsible for administration; criteria and schedules to be met; citizens' right to bring suit; and the like. Not easy reading, it beats hacking through the language of the laws themselves. Library Journal

Pollution Law Handbook is a comprehensive yet accessible guide to eight major federal statutes concerned with controlling pollution. Written for attorneys and their corporate clients concerned with environmental matters, the handbook is designed to help the reader fully comprehend both the general intent and the essential provisions of each statute--many of which seem convoluted, confusing, and unduly complex in their original statutory text. The eight statutes selected for inclusion are those which provide the principal authority for regulating air, water, and land pollution, and toxic waste.

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About the Author

SIDNEY M. WOLF is an Attorney and Environmental Consultant in Stowe, Vermont. He has taught on the college level, worked as a Washington lobbyist for enviromental groups, and has been a guest on PBS's McNeil/Lehrer Report and Good Morning America. His first Quorum book was Pollution Law Handbook: A Guide to Federal Environmental Laws.

Reviews

This may be the book to guide advocates and citizens through our complex environmental laws. By a professor and attorney, it covers the primary federal statutes regulating pollution: clean water, clean air, toxic substances control, safe drinking water, insecticide/fungicide/rodenticide, solid waste disposal, "superfund" (liability), and community right-to-know acts. Each chapter includes a useful table of contents. A brief history and overview open the discussion into the titles and sections of each law. Abbreviations are defined at the book's beginning, but important definitions are given with each law. Not a critique of the pollution laws, this is a detailed summary of their provisions, such as who is responsible for administration; criteria and schedules to be met; citizens' right to bring suit; and the like. Not easy reading, it beats hacking through the language of the laws themselves. For informed lay readers and specialists. Daniel LaRossa, Connetquot P.L., Bohemia,
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Praeger
• Publication date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 089930141X
• ISBN 13: 9780899301419
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 296