"In this impressive review of the history of air pollution control law, Noga Morag-Levine traces the roots of current tensions between common law and precautionary approaches to regulation... Chasing the Wind combines a remarkable blend of legal history, comparative law, and political theory that is presented with unfailing clarity and balance... [A] major work of scholarship that should be essential ... Read morereading for anyone seeking to understand this complex field."
Robert V. Percival, Law and Politics Book Review "The author carefully uses several centuries of legal cases and a sharp sense of comparison between U.S. and European regulatory and control regimes to provide the reader with a broad canvas of air pollution control history and to expose the weaknesses of different approaches... This book is recommended for anyone concerned with regulatory policy and will help to give a broader and more historical perspective to today's decision makers."
Christopher Hansen, Journal of Energy Literature "This work is highly recommended for all interested in the vital problems associated with Air Pollution, both in the USA and globally; it is reader friendly and is suitable reading material for both students and officials in government industry... [I]t is very realistically priced, especially for hard cover."
Mervyn Richardson, International Journal of Environmental Studies "In her scholarly and fascinating book, Morag-Levine mounts a strong challenge against the orthodox view that [the Clean Air Act 1970] marked a great advance in the history of pollution abatement and asserts that the Act has failed to fulfill these initial promises... The great strength of this book is its reliance upon historical and political sources in addition to legal ones; this provides insights and nuggets of historical detail which could not be gained through a strictly legal analysis of the materials... [T]here can be no clearer exposition of the manner in which domestic legal traditions combined with social, economic, political and historic factors serve to mould regulatory responses to pollution."
Mark Wilde, Journal of Environmental Law "[Noga Morag-Levine] presents one of the first book-length studies of legislative failure that ascribes such a failure to conceptual, rather than political, causes... Chasing the Wind is an important study of the Clean Air Act, with a great deal of information about the origins of the Act, its performance, and alternative approaches that might lead to greater success."
Edward Rubin, Law and Social Inquiry "This work is highly recommended for all interested in the vital problems associated with air pollution, both in the USA and globally; it is reader friendly and is suitable reading material for both students and officials in government and industry."
Mervyn Richardson, International Journal of Environmental Studies Show Less