Document Type
Article
Publication Date
4-2017
Abstract
Environmental law and environmental protection are often portrayed as requiring trade offs: "jobs versus environment," "markets versus regulation," "enforcement versus incentives." In the summer of 2016, members of the Environmental Law Collaborative gathered to consider how environmentalism and environmental regulation can advance beyond this framing to include new constituents and offer new pathways to tackle the many significant challenges ahead. Months later, the initial activities of the Trump Administration highlighted the use of zero-sum rhetoric, with the appointment of government officials and the issuance of executive orders that indeed seem to view environmental issues as in a zero-sum relationship with jobs or economic progress. In the essays below, the authors explore the meaning and the role of zero-sum environmentalism as a first step in moving beyond it.
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Jessica Owley; Shalanda Baker; Robin Kundis Craig; John Dernbach; Keith Hirokawa; Sarah Krakoff; Melissa Powers; Shannon Roesler,; Jonathan Rosenbloom; J. B. Ruhl; Jim Salzman; Inara Scott; and David Takacs, Beyond Zero-Sum Environmentalism, 47 Envtl. L. Rep. News & Analysis 10328 (2017).