Why Republicans turned on the environment. Brazil’s likely return to sanity. Good sign for us.
Why Republicans Turned Against the Environment: In 1990, Congress passed an amendment to the Clean Air Act of 1970, among other things taking action against acid rain, urban smog, and ozone. The legislation was highly successful, greatly reducing pollution at far lower cost than business interest groups had predicted. I sometimes see people trying to use acid rain as an example of environmental alarmism — hey, it was a big issue in the 1980s, but now hardly anyone talks about it. But the reason we don’t talk about it is that policy largely solved the problem.
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