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Regulating Air Quality Through Litigation: The Diesel Engine Episode

Bruce Yandle, Andrew P. Morriss, and Lea-Rachel Kosnik –
November 1, 2002
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Writing in the American Prospect in February 1999, Robert Reich, Secretary of Labor in the Clinton administration, announced that "Regulation is out, litigation is in. The era of big government may be over, but the era of regualtion through litigation has just begun" (Reich 1999).