Walter A. Rosenbaum
Professor of political science at University of Florida where he specializes in environmental and energy policies.
The electric wire has become the umbilical cord of American society. The Politics of Environmental Concern, 1973.
The environmental movement caught most social prophets looking the other way. Ibid.
In December, 1970, President Nixon officially created the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) with the concurrence of Congress, and thereby initiated the most imaginative, sweeping federal effort to restructure and revitalize the making of pollution control policy. Ibid.
Solid waste is an unofficial measure of national prosperity: The more affluent the nation, the greater its volume and variety of solid wastes. Ibid.
Automobiles and trucks pour 180 billion pounds of contaminants into the air annually; almost two-thirds of the carbon monoxide and half of the hydrocarbons released are traceable to internal combustion engines, which also cause the chronic smog found in Los Angeles, New York, and other metropolitan areas. Ibid.
Among most electric utilities . . . tight-fisted research spending stands in sharp contrast to generous promotional advertising, which according to one recent study, accounts for six times the dollar expenditure for research among fifteen of the nation's largest firms. Ibid.
Of the 3,700 miles of shoreline on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, only 105 miles (or about 3 per cent) were available for public use in 1965. Ibid.