Environment in the Balance: The Green Movement and the Supreme Court

By Jonathan Z. Cannon ’67. Harvard University Press. April 2015. The first Earth Day in 1970 marked environmentalism’s coming-of-age in the United States. More than four decades later, does the green movement remain a transformative force in American life? Presenting a new account from a legal perspective, this book interprets a wide range of U.S. Supreme Court decisions, along with social science research and the literature of the movement, to gauge the practical and cultural impact of environmentalism and its future prospects.