conservatives' opposition to environmental regulation Layzer, Judith A. creator text bibliography mau Cambridge MIT Press ©2013 2013 monographic eng 498 pages : 22 cm. A detailed analysis of the policy effects of conservatives' decades-long effort to dismantle the federal regulatory framework for environmental protection.Since the 1970s, conservative activists have invoked free markets and distrust of the federal government as part of a concerted effort to roll back environmental regulations. They have promoted a powerful antiregulatory storyline to counter environmentalists' scenario of a fragile earth in need of protection, mobilized grassroots opposition, and mounted creative legal challenges to environmental laws. But what has been the impact of all this activity on policy? In this book, Judith Layzer offers a detailed and systematic analysis of conservatives' prolonged campaign to dismantle the federal regulatory framework for environmental protection.Examining conservatives' influence from the Nixon era to the Obama administration, Layzer describes a set of increasingly sophisticated tactics--including the depiction of environmentalists as extremist elitists, a growing reliance on right-wing think tanks and media outlets, the cultivation of sympathetic litigators and judges, and the use of environmentally friendly language to describe potentially harmful activities. She argues that although conservatives have failed to repeal or revamp any of the nation's environmental statutes, they have influenced the implementation of those laws in ways that increase the risks we face, prevented or delayed action on newly recognized problems, and altered the way Americans think about environmental problems and their solutions. Layzer's analysis sheds light not only on the politics of environmental protection but also, more generally, on the interaction between ideas and institutions in the development of policy. Discerning the Impact of Conservative Ideas -- The Environmental Decade and the Conservative Backlash, 1970-1980 -- Ronald Reagan Brings Conservatism to the White House -- Conservative Ideas Gain Ground Under George H.W. Bush -- Bill Clinton Confronts a Conservative Congress -- George W. Bush Advances Conservatives' Antiregulatory Agenda -- The Consequences of a Conservative Era. Judith A. Layzer. Includes bibliographical references and index. English n-us--- Environmental policy United States Medio ambiente Política Conservatism United States Conservatismo Estados Unidos Environmental law United States Derecho ambiental United States Environmental conditions Estados Unidos Condiciones ambientales United States Politics and government GE 180 L429o 2013 363.7/05610973 9780262018272 OCoLC-P 120409 20230805181449.0 spa