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An Unnatural Disaster: The Aftermath Of Hurricane Katrina, David Driesen, Alyson Flournoy, Sheila Foster, Eileen Gauna, Robert Glicksman, Carmen Gonzalez, David Gottlieb, Donald Hornstein, Douglas Kysar, Thomas Mcgarity, Catherine O'Neill, Clifford Rechtschaffen, Sidney Shapiro, Christopher Schroeder, Rena Steinzor, Joseph Tomain, Robert R.M. Verchick, Karen Sokol
An Unnatural Disaster: The Aftermath Of Hurricane Katrina, David Driesen, Alyson Flournoy, Sheila Foster, Eileen Gauna, Robert Glicksman, Carmen Gonzalez, David Gottlieb, Donald Hornstein, Douglas Kysar, Thomas Mcgarity, Catherine O'Neill, Clifford Rechtschaffen, Sidney Shapiro, Christopher Schroeder, Rena Steinzor, Joseph Tomain, Robert R.M. Verchick, Karen Sokol
Robert R.M. Verchick
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The Risk In Technology-Based Standards, Patricia Ross Mccubbin
The Risk In Technology-Based Standards, Patricia Ross Mccubbin
Patricia Ross McCubbin
This article challenges the conventional belief that EPA establishes technology-based standards under the Clean Water Act and Clean Air Act simply by considering the costs of available pollution control technologies without also considering how those technologies will reduce the risks posed by harmful pollutants and benefit the public health. Instead, the author argues that, from a purely theoretical standpoint, EPA must weigh both the costs and what the author terms the “risk reduction benefits” when it sets technology-based standards – not in any formal cost-benefit analysis, but in a very rough sense. In addition, relying on an extensive review of …