Valuing Clean Air: The EPA and the Economics of Environmental Protection by Charles Halvorson (review).

Valuing Clean Air: The EPA and the Economics of Environmental Protection By Charles Halvorson. Rather than retreading a mythic narrative hinging on the Reagan administration's evisceration of the do-gooder agency, Halvorson shows how the agency was internally fragmented in the 1970s, as well as how the Reagan administration was criticized by the Republican Party for cudgeling the EPA's budget. [Extracted from the article]