Today's Environmental Issues
eBook - ePub

Today's Environmental Issues

Democrats and Republicans

  1. 408 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Today's Environmental Issues

Democrats and Republicans

About this book

An accessible and impartial survey of the positions of the Republican and Democratic parties on the most pressing environmental issues of our time, from climate change and wilderness preservation to air and water pollution. Today's Environmental Issues: Democrats and Republicans presents a unique perspective on party politics—one that impartially identifies similarities and differences regarding an array of topics ranging from fracking, sustainability, and pesticides to logging and noise pollution. Essays provide both historical information and up-to-date coverage of partisan opinions on today's environmental concerns. Written for upper level high school students, undergraduates, and general audiences interested in environmental issues and partisan viewpoints, this book enables readers to better understand the origins, details, differences, and commonalities of partisan opinions surrounding today's environmental concerns. Each environmental issue is unique with its own set of concerns and impacts, particularly when viewed from a party perspective. By examining a breadth of issues from the party viewpoint, readers can understand how the parties could work together or in opposition, depending on the environmental issue—and that the parties may not always be polar opposites on every issue, a characterization that is often portrayed in the media. Each essay includes a sidebar that presents a quick look at the party line, individuals who have shaped opinion or policy, or key court decisions.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Preface: Partisan Environmental Priorities
  6. Introduction
  7. Climate Change
  8. Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations
  9. Emissions Trading
  10. Endangered Species
  11. Environmental Justice
  12. Freshwater Use and Pollution
  13. Fuel and Energy Efficiency Standards
  14. Genetically Modified Foods
  15. Grazing
  16. Hazardous Waste Disposal
  17. Hydraulic Fracturing (“Fracking”)
  18. Hydroelectric Energy
  19. Indoor Air Pollution
  20. Logging on Public Lands
  21. Marine Pollution and Protection
  22. Mining
  23. Motorized Recreation on Public Lands
  24. National Parks
  25. Noise Pollution
  26. Nuclear Waste Disposal
  27. Oil and Natural Gas Drilling
  28. Outdoor Air Pollution
  29. Ozone Depletion
  30. Pesticides
  31. Public Lands
  32. Solar Energy
  33. Sustainability
  34. Transportation
  35. Wetlands
  36. Wilderness Conservation
  37. Wind Energy
  38. Glossary
  39. Selected Bibliography
  40. Index
  41. About the Contributors