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Politics and the Environment Robert J. Brulle Drexel University Forthcoming in Kevin T. Leicht and J. Craig Jenkins (eds), The Handbook of Politics : State and Civil Society in Global Perspective Springer Publishers, New York, NY. _____. For nearly 150 years, Environmental concerns have been part of the political agenda. As early as 1864, the Congress debated the proper use of national lands, and, motivated by press accounts of the logging of Giant Sequoia trees, decided to protect Yosemite Valley for aesthetic reasons (Brulle 2000). Since then, as industrialization and Environmental impacts have risen in tandem, Environmental Politics has expanded its range over an increasingly wide spectrum of political action, ranging from local level land use decisions to global controls over CO2 emissions.

of the environmental movement, such as environmental justice organizations. However, within the environmental movement, there are several very large frame spanning organizations, such as the Environmental Defense Fund, the Natural Resources Defense Council, or Greenpeace. Most notably is the Sierra Club. With over 750,000 members, and

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