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Chasing the Wind: Regulating Air Pollution in the Common Law State

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 September 2004

R. Shep Melnick
Affiliation:
Boston College

Extract

Chasing the Wind: Regulating Air Pollution in the Common Law State. By Noga Morag-Levine. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003. 264p. $35.00.

This book covers an impressive array of topics: the contrasting styles of air pollution regulation in the United States and Europe; the English common law of “noxious vapours” from 1611 to 1900; the origin of the highly effective British Alkali Inspectorate; the development of the common law of nuisance in Pennsylvania from 1869 to 1970; American regulation of “smoke” and “odors” over the past century; and a detailed examination of contemporary regulation of odor at foundries in four American cities. The author is to be commended for the extensive research packed into nine dense chapters.

Type
BOOK REVIEWS: AMERICAN POLITICS
Copyright
© 2004 American Political Science Association

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