Growing public concerns about environmental degradation and the 
compromised integrity of the earth's ecological system spurred 
Congress to pass the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 
(NEPA), the first law to focus such environmental concerns into a 
comprehensive national policy.

    Though NEPA has had a positive effect on U.S. environmental 
policy and the national quality of life, this book shows how federal 
courts and agencies have failed to implement many of the values and 
goals fundamental to the success of NEPA. To explain this 
divergence, Matthew J. Lindstrom and Zachary A. Smith examine 
NEPA's origins, address how it had been implemented and enforced, 
and highlight its shortcomings. Lindstrom and Smith argue 
compellingly that if NEPA were fully and properly implemented, it 
would prove to be a valuable tool for balancing the needs of the 
world population and the protection of the earth's environment.

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Number Seventeen: Environmental History Series



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