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This is a helpful reminder of how much harm the reactionaries can do--and, sadly, are still attempting to do--to environmental progress. My latest novel contemplates the results if they win, and the results ain't pretty. Good for you for reminding us of this history.

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J.E., while it's not a totally clear divide between Democrats and GOP on the environment, these beginnings of the backlash to the environmental safeguards from the seventies does turn into a political football, with Democrats siding (at least in part) with environmentalists and the GOP turning more and more into clear-cutting, climate denying friends of big money.

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