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With five key tricks, politicians of both parties now avoid accounting to us for what government actually does to us. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhile you understand that these politicians seem to pull rabbits out of hats, hardly anyone sees the sleight of hand by which they get away with their tricks. Otherwise, their tricks wouldn't work. \u003ci\u003eDC Confidential\u003c\/i\u003e exposes the sleights of hand. Once they are brought to light, we can stop the tricks, fix our broken government, and make Washington work for us once again. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe book explains the necessary reform and lays out an action plan to put it in place. 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Congress empowered the Environmental Protection Agency on the theory that only a national agency that is insulated from accountability to voters could produce the scientifically grounded pollution rules needed to save a careless public from its own filth. In this provocative book, David Schoenbrod explains how his experience as an environmental advocate brought him to this startling realization: letting EPA dictate to the nation is a mistake.    Through a series of gripping and illuminating anecdotes from his own career, the author reveals the EPA to be an agency that, under Democrats and Republicans alike, delays good rules, imposes bad ones, and is so big, muscle-bound, and remote that it does unnecessary damage to our society. EPA stays in power, he says, because it enables elected legislators to evade responsibility by hiding behind appointed bureaucrats. The best environmental rules—those that have done the most good—have come when Congress had to take responsibility or from states and localities rather than the EPA.    With the passion of an authentic environmentalist, Schoenbrod makes a sensible plea for “bottom-up” environmental protection now. The responsibility for pollution control belongs not in agencies but in legislatures, and usually not at the federal level but rather closer to home.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50257071014161,"sku":"CIN0300119844G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51551905415441,"sku":"GOR014326059","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52659485147409,"sku":"NLS9780300119848","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":53499649753361,"sku":"CIN0300119844VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0300119844.jpg?v=1750876448"},{"product_id":"power-without-responsibility-book-david-schoenbrod-9780300065183","title":"Power Without Responsibility","description":"This book argues that Congress's process for making law is as corrosive to the nation as unchecked deficit spending.  David Schoenbrod shows that Congress and the president, instead of making the laws that govern us, generally give bureaucrats the power to make laws through agency regulations. Our elected \"lawmakers\" then take credit for proclaiming popular but inconsistent statutory goals and later blame the inevitable burdens and disappointments on the unelected bureaucrats. The 1970 Clean Air Act, for example, gave the Environmental Protection Agency the impossible task of making law that would satisfy both industry and environmentalists. Delegation allows Congress and the president to wield power by pressuring agency lawmakers in private, but shed responsibility by avoiding the need to personally support or oppose the laws, as they must in enacting laws themselves.  Schoenbrod draws on his experience as an attorney with the Natural Resources Defense Council and on studies of how delegation actually works to show that this practice produces a regulatory system so cumbersome that it cannot provide the protection that people need, so large that it needlessly stifles the economy, and so complex that it keeps the voters from knowing whom to hold accountable for the consequences. Contending that delegation is unnecessary and unconstitutional, Schoenbrod has written the first book that shows how, as a practical matter, delegation can be stopped.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50965286420753,"sku":"GOR014151592","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51686413762833,"sku":"CIN0300065183VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52143196602641,"sku":"NLS9780300065183","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0300065183.jpg?v=1751102013"},{"product_id":"power-without-responsibility-book-david-schoenbrod-9780300053630","title":"Power without Responsibility","description":"Arguing that Congress's process of making law is as corrosive to the US as unchecked deficit spending, this book aims to show that Congress and the President of the USA, instead of making the laws that govern America, generally give bureaucrats the power to make laws through agency regulations.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51158104178961,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51158104473873,"sku":"CIN0300053630VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0300053630.jpg?v=1750694965"},{"product_id":"breaking-the-logjam-book-david-schoenbrod-9780300171488","title":"Breaking the Logjam","description":"After several decades of significant but incomplete successes, environmental protection in the United States is stuck. 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Based on a project the authors led that incorporated the work of more than fifty leading environmental experts, this book is a call to action through public understanding based on a nonpartisan argument for smarter, more flexible regulatory programs to stimulate the economy and encourage green technology.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52668478095633,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52668479275281,"sku":"NLS9780300171488","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780300171488.jpg?v=1762285123"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/collections\/author-books-by-david-schoenbrod.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}