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How Environmental Policy is Made--Part 1: Introduction
Politics are messy but environmental danger is real. How does such an important topic get addressed without our complex and monolithic system of government? This series provides a look into the history, players, process, and problems involved in trying to enact and modify environmental policy.

Published by etherfire (2,099 pts ) on Sep 14, 2009 to
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How Environmental Policy is Made--Part 3, Key Players
Who are the main groups involved in influencing and creating the policies that will protect our doom our world? Who can we look to to have an affect on these politics? This article explores the key players in policy, identifying the people and places where environmental policy is created.

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How Environmental Policy is Made--Part 2, History of Environmental and Science Policy
To understand how environmental policy is made, we must first go through some of the history of science policy in the United States. This article covers some of the origins of science-related policy customs and organizations as well as the creation of some of the first big environmental laws.

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How Environmental Policy Is Made--Part 6, Problems and Hurdles
Now that we have a good understanding of how policy is made the last thing to do is to identify hurdles and problems that make it difficult to create sustainable policies. This will help us understand why environmental actions are always so difficult to achieve.

Published by etherfire (2,099 pts ) on Aug 15, 2009 to
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How Environmental Policy Is Made--Part 5, Role Of Science
Now that we have been through the process of making policy it is important to have a short discussion on the role of science in environmental politics. This article addresses the way science is used as a justification and mitigator in developing environmental policy.

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How Environmental Policy is Made--Part 4, Process
Now that we have a feel for the history and key players involved in Environmental politics we can go through the main aspects of the process. This follows a process similar to all policy; this article will go through these aspects, highlighting particularly relevant aspects to environmental politics

Published by etherfire (2,099 pts ) on Aug 12, 2009 to
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U.S. Environmental Leadership
A comparison of George W. Bush era environmental policies with those in the beginning of Barrack Obama's administration. Also why the U.S. can and should take the leading role in global environmental issues.

Published by Don Shepard (285 pts ) on Jun 23, 2009 to
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