History
St. John’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Environmentalism and the
Government
Publisher: Krieger Publishing Company
Malabar, FL
2005, 131 pages
Environmentalism and the Government, 1844-1989, traces
the advancing control of local and state agencies and more
especially federal authorities over the American environment. What
is striking about the theme of this volume was the expansion of
federal control over the environment, and the incremental and at
times ad hoc, yet steady nature of this development, at least
before the 1960s. In retrospect one thing seems eminently clear,
those Americans concerned about safeguarding the environment saw no
viable alternative to entrusting the responsibility to Uncle
Sam.