Unlikely Environmentalists ：Congress and Clean Water, 1955-1972

Publication subTitle ：Congress and Clean Water, 1955-1972

Author： Milazzo > Paul Charles

Publisher： University Press of Kansas‎

Publication year： 2016

E-ISBN: 9780700622399

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780700622382

Subject： D034 State institutions;D52 世界政治制度与国家机构;K7 Americas History;X5 Environmental Pollution and Prevention

Keyword：环境污染及其防治,法律,美洲史

Language： ENG

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Environmental activism has most often been credited to grassroots protesters, but much early progress in environmental protection originated in the halls of Congress. As Paul Milazzo shows, a coterie of unlikely environmentalists placed water quality issues on the national agenda as early as the 1950s and continued to shape governmental policy through the early 1970s, both outpacing public concern and predating the environmental movement.

Milazzo examines a two-decade crusade to clean up the nation's water supply led by development boosters, pork barrel politicians, and the Army Corps of Engineers, all of whom framed threats to the water supply as an economic rather than environmental problem and saw pollution as an inhibitor of regional growth. Showing how the legislative branch acted more assertively than the executive, the book weaves the history of the federal water pollution control program into a broader narrative of political and institutional development, covering all major clean water legislation as well as many other landmark environmental laws.

Milazzo explains how the evolution of Congress's internal structure after World War II, with its standing committees and powerful chairmen, ultimately shaped the scope and substance of important legislative policies. He reveals how Representative John Blatnik of Minnesota, chairman of the House Subcommittee on Rivers and Harbors, shepherded the first permanent water pollution control legislation through Cong

Chapter

Cover

Title Page

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

Preface

Introduction

Part I. Development

1. Setting the Agenda: John Blatnik and the Developmental Politics of Water Pollution Control

2. The Solution to Pollution Is Dilution: The 1960 Senate Select Committee on National Water Resources

3. The Education of an Entrepreneur: Edmund S. Muskie and the Subcommittee on Air and Water Pollution

Part II. Systems

4. Thinking in Systems: The Rise of Professional Ecology

5. From Pollution Control to Environmental Quality: The Challenge of NEPA

6. The Movement’s Moment: The Challenge of Environmentalism

Part III. Synthesis

7. The Strange Career of the Corps of Engineers: Transforming Water Pollution Control Policy

8. Drafting the Clean Water Act: Systems Thinking and the “Ecologically Sound Society"

9. Defending the Clean Water Act: Confronting Friends and Foes

Conclusion

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index

Back Cover

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