This book is a study of ways to improve
environmental policy by changing the allocation of authority for environmental
regulation
within the U.S. federal system. Mr. Butler is the Fred and Mary Koch Distinguished Teaching Professor of Law and Economics at the University of Kansas. Mr. Macey is the J. DuPratt White Professor of Law at Cornell University. A summary of the book follows.
More than twenty years of intensive federal
regulation of
environmental risks have demonstrated the severe drawbacks of centralized environmental policy. The command-and-control regulatory strategy that currently dominates environmental policy has squandered resources, discouraged environmentally superior technologies, and imposed unnecessary penalties on innovation and