Concepts, Defined
When the regulated exerts substantial influence over the regulators.
Regulatory Capture
Title IV of the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments
Market-based environmental policy
Cost or benefit of an economic activity that is experienced by a third party and is not reflected in the cost of the good/service involved.
Externality
When environmental hazards disproportionately burden some social groups more so than others.
Environmental Inequality
The burning of the Cuyahoga River.
Focusing Event
Promises African Americans "40 acres and a mule" to own and work abandoned parcels of land in former Confederate states.
Special Field Orders No. 15
A sudden, relatively rare, and costly event which shifts public attention towards a particular issue area.
Focusing Event
"Dam Hetch Hetchy! As well dam for water-tanks the people’s cathedrals and churches, for no holier temple has ever been consecrated by the heart of man." - John Muir
Problem Definition
The belief that American culture and American exceptionalism were born from white settlers experiences' in the American West.
The Frontier Thesis
Privately-owned electric utilities gain monopoly status but subject themselves to regulations by a public utility commission.
The Utility Consensus
Iron Eyes Cody and the Keep America Beautiful Campaign
Myth of the "ecological Indian"
To gain membership to this organization, one must have "killed with the rifle in fair chase, by still-hunting or otherwise, at least one individual of three various kinds of American large game."
The Boone and Crockett Club
The core thesis of this environmental philosophy: good environmental stewardship is facilitated by a free labor system in which workers enjoy civil and political equality.
Black Agrarianism
"Gifts from the earth...establish a particular relationship, an obligation of sorts...the [strawberry] field gave to us, we gave to my dad, and we tried to give back to the strawberries." - Robin Wall Kimmerer
Interdependence
Roosevelt and other prominent conservationists aspire to this gender norm when engaging in sport hunting.
The Cult of True Manhood