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Open for business : conservatives' opposition to environmental regulation /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Layzer, Judith A.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2012]
Series:American and comparative environmental policy.
Subjects:
Environmental policy > United States.
Conservatism > United States.
Ecology > United States.
United States > Environmental conditions.
United States > Politics and government.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Discerning the impact of conservative ideas
  • 3. The environmental decade and the conservative backlash, 1970-1980
  • 4. Ronald Reagan brings conservativism to the White House
  • 5. Conservative ideas gain ground under George H.W. Bush
  • 6. Bill Clinton confronts a conservative Congress
  • 7. George W. Bush advances conservatives' antiregulatory agenda
  • 8. The consequences of a conservative era.