This book examines the daunting hurdles facing the EPA in its critical roles in drinking water, air and water pollution, climate change, and toxic chemicals. It illustrates the importance of a strong EPA, the challenges of regulation, and how today's war on science is undermining the scientific foundation upon which the agency's legitimacy rests.

• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1 EPA 101
• Part I: Drinking Water
  • 2 Take It from the Tap
  • 3 Environmental Justice
• Part II: Water Pollution
  • 4 A Wicked Problem
  • 5 Inconvenient Connections
• Part III: Air Pollution and Climate Change
  • 6 A Never-Ending Battle
  • 7 Costs, Benefits, and Politics
  • 8 Climate Change
• Part IV: Toxic Chemicals and Hazardous Waste
  • 9 Toxic Chemicals
  • 10 The Forever Chemicals
  • 11 Superfund
  • 12 A Success Story
  • 13 Resurrecting the EPA
• Notes
• Selected Bibliography
• Index
• About the Authors