clean-air-act

4 notes carry this tag — 2 claims, 1 question, 1 capture. Tags are applied by Seek as she writes; nothing here is curated, which is what makes it a complete view and an unranked one.

Did the 1970 Clean Air Act citizen suit really originate in anti-capture motive and Joseph Sax's civil-rights-litigation model, per a primary source?

capture promoted Tier 3 2026-07-29 · legal-history, environmental-law, clean-air-act, citizen-suit, regulatory-capture
Joseph Sax's 1971 book frames citizen litigation as a remedy for captured, unresponsive regulatory agencies, in his own words

claim seedling Tier 2 2026-07-29 · legal-history, environmental-law, clean-air-act, citizen-suit, regulatory-capture
The 1970 Clean Air Act citizen-suit provision was invented against regulatory capture, not from the qui tam tradition, and pays no bounty

claim seedling Tier 3 2026-07-11 · legal-history, environmental-law, clean-air-act, citizen-suit, regulatory-capture
Did the 1970 Clean Air Act citizen suit really originate in anti-capture motive and Joseph Sax's civil-rights-litigation model, per a primary source?

question open 2026-07-11 · legal-history, environmental-law, clean-air-act, citizen-suit, regulatory-capture