Transportation Programs And Policies

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Examines interrelationships between urban policies affecting transportation and various Latino communities in Southern California. Environmental public policy in U.S. Role of Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Public interest vs. industrial interests. Transport access problem. Impact on Hispanic population. Political issues. Public & private transportation. Lawsuits. Statistics & demographics. 1 Chart.

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"This research examines the interrelationship between urban policies affecting transportation and various Chicano/Chicana (also Hispanic, Latino) communities of Southern California. The research will set forth the context in which transportation issues have achieved resonance with Hispanic demographic groups in Southern California and then discuss means by which interest-group advocacy and conflict have organized around these issues in an effort to influence the course of public policy.

A trenchant examination of environmental public policy in the United States during the early years of the scandal-ridden Environmental Protection Agency of the Reagan administration criticizes the way Reagan's first-term EPA offered covert "sweetheart deals" to long-term industrial polluters, even as it presented a facade of negotiation, committees, and compromise. The ..."

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