Book Forum 

# *Saving Our Environment from Washington*

Date and Time 

April 22, 2005 11 AM - 12:30 PM EDT 

Location 

Auditorium/Wintergarden 

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##### Featuring 

Featuring **David Schoenbrod**, Professor of Law, New York Law School; Adjunct Scholar, Cato Institute; Author, *Saving Our Environment from Washington: How Congress Grabs Power, Shirks Responsibility, and Shortchanges the People* (Yale University Press, 2005) and moderated by **Jerry Taylor**, Director of Natural Resource Studies, Cato Institute. 

In 1970, Congress created the EPA on the theory that only a national agency insulated from accountability to voters could produce the scientifically grounded pollution rules needed to save a careless public from its own filth. But David Schoenbrod, former Natural Resources Defense Council senior attorney, has come to the conclusion that letting the EPA dictate to the nation is a mistake. In his new book, Prof. Schoenbrod argues that the EPA is a musclebound agency that, under Democrats and Republicans alike, delays good rules, imposes bad ones, and is so massive, mighty, and remote that it does unnecessary damage to our society.

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