As we approach the 30th anniversary of Earth Day (the first of
its kind was April 1970), congressional debate about environmental
protection often remains paralyzed and polarized. But across the
country, environmental pragmatism is gaining ground. The Morning
after Earth Day explores how policymakers, business executives, and
citizen groups are fighting novel political battles and sometimes
making peace with surprising compromises. After a generation of
progress in reducing large sources of industrial and municipal
pollution and in improving management of public lands, today's
environmental conflicts are more complex. They involve controlling
pollution caused by farmers, small businesses, drivers of aging
cars, and homeowners, as well as minimizing ecological threats on
private land. Remedies often lie in politically treacherous
territory--persuading ordinary people to change their daily
routines rather than ordering big business to adopt new technology
or government officials to manage land differently. As Mary Graham
shows, practical approaches are resolving immediate disputes and
providing clues for future policy. But core dilemmas remain. They
include how to reconcile environmental protection with respect for
private property, how to balance federal and state authority, and
how much to rely on behavioral versus technological change. Only by
reclaiming the debate about these dilemmas from extremists and
confronting them head-on will the nation build a solid foundation
for the next generation of environmental policy. Copublished with
the Governance Institute
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