Environmental Protection in America: Resources

John McNeill:

• The Great Acceleration, Harvard University Press 
• The Webs of Humankind, W.W. Norton & Company 
• Something New Under the Sun, W.W. Norton & Company
• Buying tTime for a Tough Transition, Nat Sustain

Naomi Oreskes:

• “Climate Change and the Clean Air Act of 1970 Part I: the Scientific Basis,” Ecology Law Quarterly.
• Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Climate Change, Bloomsbury Publishing.
• Why Trust Science? Princeton University Press 
• The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market, Bloomsbury Publishing

Sharon Tisher:

• Full A Climate Chronology, University of Maine
• A Climate Chronology from 2025 on

ENVIRONMENTAL TERMS

• What is the Anthropocene and why does it matter? Natural History Museum

• The Great Transformation, Karl Polanyi, Beacon Press

• The Great Unraveling, Post Carbon Institute

• Fossil-fuel use will peak before 2030 – unless ‘stated policies’ are abandoned, Carbon Brief

ACTIVISM OF THE 1970S

• How the largest environmental movement in history was born, BBC

• Environmentalism’s Less-Partisan Past, Yale Climate Change Communication

• From Naomi Oreskes: The most important statute most people have never heard of. Right now Trump administration is trying to gut it, to defend glyphosate.
• Summary of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act

THE EPA'S ENDANGERMENT FINDING

• US EPA announces intention to rescind landmark "endangerment finding" underpinning regulation of climate change, Environmental Health News

• Summary of the Clean Air Act, Environmental Protection Agency

• Supreme Court Takes Up Climate Tort Case Amid EPA Endangerment Rollback, Smith Anderson

• "Climate Change and the Clean Air Act of 1970 Part I: the Scientific Basis," Naomi Oreskes, Ecology Quarterly

• The legal reasoning behind the endangerment rescission, The Salata Institute

• Climate Brief: The Legal Reasoning Behind the Endangerment Rescission, Harvard Law School

• National Academies Publish New Report Reviewing Evidence for Greenhouse Gas Emissions and U.S. Climate, Health, and Welfare, National Academies

• Earthjustice and Partners Sue EPA For Illegal Repeal of Climate Protections, Earth Justice