Unlikely Environmentalists

Author: Paul Charles Milazzo
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Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0700614753

Unlikely Environmentalists: Congress And Clean Water, 1945-1972

Environmental activism has most often been credited to grassroots protesters, but much early progress in environmental protection originated in the halls of Congress. Download Unlikely Environmentalists: Congress And Clean Water, 1945-1972 from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. 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 growt Search and find a lot of engineering books in many category availabe for free download.

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