The commitment to economic growth grounded in private property, free enterprise, and
market exchange created unprecedented employment opportunities, incomes, and …

This new edition puts 25 years of environmental policy development in context by examining
the institutional framework for making policy, the role of environmentalism and public …

Twenty-five years ago, the Cuyahoga River in Ohio was so contaminated that it caught fire,
air pollution in some cities was thick enough to taste, and environmental laws focused on the …

Prior to the Nixon administration, environmental policy in the United States was rudimentary
at best. Since then, it has evolved into one of the primary concerns of governmental policy …

A distinctive feature of the environmental movement over the last 15 years has been its
strongly legal character. Perhaps as an outgrowth of the feelings common in the 1960s that …

The political debate over environmental policy has never been as contentious or rancorous
as it is today. In Washington the new Congress is moving swiftly to roll back twenty-five years …

Environmental policy and politics in the United States have changed dramatically over the
past three decades. What began in the late 1960s as an heroic effort by an incipient …

Compared with many other federal regulatory agencies, the Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) and its siblings of the 1970s are relative newcomers. Indeed, Congress …

Environmentalism at its inception was a grand vision, one that all Americans willingly
shared. Somehow that vision of the essential unity of nature and of the need for bringing …

Environmental policy has been the focus of reform efforts for more than a generation. Now
policymakers face a new and challenging set of issues: how to develop strategies for …