Saving the Lost Sheep: Bringing Environmental Values Back into the Fold with a New EPA Decision Making Paradigm

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Victor Byers Flatt

Case Western Reserve University School of Law

Date Written: December 1, 1999

Abstract

The dominant cost benefit paradigm for decision making does not fully capture the environmental values important to most persons and that inform the laws. How can an administrative agency such as the EPA give voice to these values while still having a predictable and transparent decision making paradigm?

Keywords: environment, values, EPA, cost benefit, administrative law, law, environmental policy

JEL Classification: D60, D61, D63, D81, D84, H41, K23, K32, K40, Q2

Suggested Citation

Flatt, Victor Byers, Saving the Lost Sheep: Bringing Environmental Values Back into the Fold with a New EPA Decision Making Paradigm (December 1, 1999). Washington Law Review, Vol. 74, p. 1, 1999, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1971904

Victor Byers Flatt (Contact Author)

Case Western Reserve University School of Law ( email )

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Cleveland, OH 44106-7148
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