Introduction: then and now -- Coming to the environmental movement -- Congress does its thing -- Leaving the lead in -- Failure and success in cleaning the air -- Growing power -- The EPA today -- What's science got to do with it? -- Lois Swirsky Gold, chemicals, and cancer -- Angus Macbeth and the Hudson River -- Precaution and policy -- Coming down to earth -- A government of the people -- Home rule -- Vicki Been and environmental justice -- Legislative responsibility -- The rights of citizens -- The boon of liberty -- The appeal of law -- The joy of doing -- Conclusion: spaceship earth without a captain.
