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Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1 Environmental Policy in Practice -- Environmental Dilemmas and Choices -- Clean or Dirty Air? -- Is It Really Drinkable? -- Taking Out the Trash -- Why Should We Care About Plants and Animals? -- Plan of the Book -- Chapter Wrap-Up -- Challenge Question for the Environmental Policy Classroom -- Suggested Resources -- Readings and Websites -- Films or Videos -- References -- 2 The Development and Context of American Environmental Policy -- Historical Evolution of US Environmental Policy -- Colonial America -- Nineteenth Century -- Early Twentieth Century: 1900-1930s -- Mid-twentieth Century: 1940s and 1950s -- The Birth of the Modern Environmental Movement -- The 1970s: The Development of Modern Environmental Regulation -- The 1980s: Changing Course with Environmental Protection -- The 1990s: Stagnation -- The Early Twenty-First Century: Presidents Bush and Obama -- The Trump Administration: The Undoing of Environmental Policy -- The Start of the Third Decade of the Twenty-First Century: The Biden Administration -- Themes in the US' Experience with Environmental Policy -- Public Opinion and the Environment -- Role of Science in Public Discourse -- Chapter Wrap-Up -- Challenge Question for the Environmental Policy Classroom -- Suggested Resources -- Readings and Websites -- Films or Video -- References -- 3 The Messy Process of Making Environmental Policy -- What Is Environmental Policy? -- The Context of Policymaking -- The Policy Process -- Stages Model of Policymaking -- Problem Identification and Definition -- Agenda Setting -- Policy Formulation -- Policy Legitimation -- Policy Implementation -- Policy Evaluation -- Policy Failure and Change -- Flaws of the Stages Model and Alternative Policy Models -- Attributes of the Policymaking System.