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Ubiquitous environmental pollution and how we regulate it is now a more critical issue than ever. A Regulatory Framework to Remediate the Planet: Strategies, Outcomes and Implications develops an optimal regulatory strategy to minimize human-generated environmental harms by the generation of multi-media pollution and postulates a means to use this strategy "in reverse" to restore Nature's ecosystems. The strategy first includes reforming key aspects of the Clean Air Act, using the core strategy to likewise regulate the generation of solid waste pollution, and facilitate the transition to a circular economy. The author shows that this core strategy will holistically regulate the generation of multi-media environmental pollution, i.e., air, water, onsite generated waste, and solid waste pollution. He further argues that these outcomes are only possible through the intelligent use of rigorous, limit-based regulation, employing the proper blend of command-and-control and market-based instruments, rooted in an underlying structure that can be applied as a regulatory strategy across all environmental media.
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
Part 1: Prepping for Regulatory Surgery
Chapter 1: The Fundamentals of Regulating Air Pollution
Chapter 2: The Inherent Design Flaws of Regulating Stationary Sources Under the Clean Air Act
Chapter 3: Past Discussion of Clean Air Act Reform
Part 2: The Comprehensive Strategy
Chapter 4: A New Framework for Regulating Air Pollution from Stationary Sources
Chapter 5: Insights and Commentary on the Comprehensive Strategy
Part 3: The Adapted and Generalized Strategies
Chapter 6: Adapting the Comprehensive Strategy to the Generation of Solid Waste Pollution
Chapter 7: Generalizing the Strategies to the Generation of Multi-Media Environmental Pollution
Chapter 8: Commentary on and Implications of the Adapted and Generalized Strategies
Part 4: Pursuing a Grand Unified Theory of Environmental Law and Regulation
Chapter 9: Expanding the Use of the Strategies
Chapter 10: The Implications for Environmental Law
Conclusion
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