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Source: The New Yorker

4/22/2020

An Earth Day Reminder of How the Republicans Have Forsaken the Environment

by Elizabeth Kolbert

Professors James Morton Turner and Andrew Isenberg's recent book identifies the Reagan Revolution as the moment the Republican Party rejected environmental regulation and made further protective legislation politically unthinkable for a generation.

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An Earth Day Reminder of How the Republicans Have Forsaken the Environment

by Elizabeth Kolbert