A comprehensive text for environmental politics and policy courses that offers a balanced assessment of current environmental issues.

Environmental Politics and Policy is the most engaging book for teaching U.S. Environmental Policy, and the best way to teach the process of making policy.

-- Ninian R. Stein
[The text] provides a good overview of domestic environmental policymaking at the federal level. The book fits nicely into my style/format of teaching the course.

-- Robert Holahan

Walter A. Rosenbaum is professor emeritus of political science at the University of Florida and director emeritus of the University of Florida's Bob Graham Center for Public Service. His recent activities include an analysis of the EPA's capacity for climate change regulation, prepared for the Brookings Institution; an examination of the data requirements for a new Federal Environmental Legacy Act; preparation of an energy policy text for CQ Press; and an analysis of U.S.energy governance for MIT Press. He has also served as a staff member of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and an adjunct professor in the School of Public Health, Tulane University Medical College. In addition to his teaching and research, he has been a consultant to the EPA, the U.S. Department of Energy, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and the South Florida Ecosystem (Everglades) Restoration Project. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal for Environmental Studies and Sciences.

Figures, Tables, Boxes, and Maps Preface About the Author Chapter 1 * After Earth Day Frack, Baby, Frack America's Environmental Legacy The Evolution of U.S. Environmentalism Ongoing Challenges: Present and Future Plan for the Book Conclusion Suggested Readings Notes Chapter 2 * Making Policy: The Process Protecting the Bee: The Pathways of Policy The Policy Cycle Constitutional Constraints Incrementalism Interest Group Politics The Environmental Movement: Confronting the Challenge of Change Environmentalism and Its Critics The Public and Environmentalism The Special Place of Science in Policymaking Conclusion Suggested Readings Notes Chapter 3 * Making Policy: Governmental Institutions and Politics The Water War Called WOTUS The Presidency Congress: Too Much Check, Too Little Balance The Bureaucracy: Power Through Implementation The Courts: The Role of Appraisal The Political Environment of Environmental Policymaking Conclusion Suggested Readings Notes Chapter 4 * Common Policy Challenges: Risk Assessment and Environmental Justice A Toxic Nightmare From Toyland? Risk Assessment and the Limits of Science What Risks Are Acceptable? Risk Assessment Reconsidered: The Precautionary Principle Risk and Discrimination: The Problem of Environmental Justice Conclusion Suggested Readings Notes Chapter 5 * More Choice: The Battle Over Regulatory Economics The Benefit-Cost Debate Regulation Strategies: Command and Control Versus the Marketplace Conclusion Suggested Readings Notes Chapter 6 * Command and Control in Action: Air and Water Pollution Regulation The Politics of Command-and-Control Regulation Regulating Air Quality Current Controversies in Air-Quality Regulation Regulating Water Quality Conclusion Suggested Readings Notes Chapter 7 * A Regulatory Thicket: Toxic and Hazardous Substances Toxic and Expensive: The Stringfellow Waste Site The Growth of Federal Toxics Regulation Federal Law: Toxics Regulation From the Cradle to the Grave? Conclusion Suggested Readings Notes Chapter 8 * Energy: America's Energy Politics in Transformation The Foundation: A Fossil Fuel Nation Natural Gas and the Gas Boom Coal: The Promise and Perils of Abundance Fossil Fuel Alternatives: Nuclear Power and Renewable Energy Conclusion Suggested Readings Notes Chapter 9 * 635 Million Acres of Politics: The Contested Resources of Public Lands The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: Public Land Politics at a Boil The Department in the Middle The Public Lands Conflicts Over Multiple Use The Fate of the Forests How Much Wilderness Is Enough? Conclusion Suggested Readings Notes Chapter 10 * The Politics and Policy of Global Climate Change Science and Climate Warming The Domestic Politics of Climate Change The Difficult Quest for an International Climate Agreement Deadlock Over Domestic Climate Emission Controls The Clouded Future of U.S. Climate Policy Conclusion Suggested Readings Notes List of Abbreviations Index