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The consideration of values in environmental policy decisions requires attention not only to substantive matters of environmental quality, but also to balancing such broader social values as science, democracy, & authority. Current methods for values analysis can be grouped according to their relative emphasis among these values to better illuminate the implications of adopting such methods. HA.

In the third edition of this definitive book, Richard N.L. Andrews looks back at four centuries of American environmental policy, showing how these policies affect contemporary environmental issues and public policy decisions, and identifying key policy challenges for the future. Andrews crafts a detailed and contextualized narrative of the historical development of American environmental policies and institutions. This volume presents an extensively revised text, with increased detail on the fifty-year history of the modern environmental policy era and is updated through the Obama and Trump administrations

State governments differ widely in the extent to which they rely on local control or state override procedures as decision processes for siting hazardous waste management facilities. A report is presented of state approaches to this question & their results to date, focusing on comparison among four primary approaches to the role of government: state preemption, state override, local veto, & state procedural restraints. Results suggest that few facilities have been sited under any of these procedures, but that state preemption & override processes are not necessarily more effective than local veto or more modest procedural restraints. In principle, the combination of local control with modest state restraints to ensure fair procedures & reasoned criteria for decisions seems most consistent with US political traditions of self governance. 1 Table, 9 References. HA