The green years, 1964-1976 : when Democrats and Republicans united to repair the Earth / Gregg Coodley and David Sarasohn, with a foreword by Senator Ron Wyden.

"The Green Years is the most comprehensive history of environmentalism's legislative achievements, chronicling the years 1964-1976 when almost all the major federal legislation that still shapes our environmental policy was enacted, beginning with the Wilderness Act of 1964 and concluding...

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Main Authors: Coodley, Gregg (Author), Sarasohn, David (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2021]
Series:Environment and society.
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Table of Contents:
  • List of the major environmental advances of the green years
  • Earth Day, 1970
  • Wilderness at last
  • Money, beauty, and recreation
  • Lands, rivers, and trails
  • Tackling pollution in the Johnson years
  • The green Nixon
  • High tide on Nixon water policy
  • The atmosphere changes
  • Saving the oceans
  • Protecting endangered species
  • Tracking toxins across land and sea
  • Land and wilderness management
  • The years that followed
  • What happened in the green years?