294 pages, softcover

$20.25

ed. by Richard Stroup and Roger Meiners

While multi-million dollar environmental lawsuits proliferate and Superfund has spent billions on hazardous clean-ups, there is little evidence that any real progress has been made in cleaning up actual toxic threats to the environment. Meanwhile the federal government is itself the "largest single source of demand" for toxic substances, which immunizes itself, its suppliers and licensees from liability. This book examines whether current regulation and policies benefit lawyers, bureaucrats and special interests, diverting attention away from the real health and safety risks, while creating disincentives for industry to safeguard against actual hazards, and what would work better.

Cutting Green Tape provides the essential framework to understand and resolve the most difficult environmental and safety problems through innovative, practical, and ecologically sound common law and market-based alternatives to bureaucratic failure.