“The most meaningful engine of change, powerful enough to confront corporate power, may be not so much environmental quality, as the economic development and growth associated with the effort to improve it.”
“By adopting the control strategy, the nation's environmental program has created a built-in antagonism between environmental quality and economic growth.”
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