Originally published: 2004. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Lazarus offers a fresh interpretation of the past three decades in this area of American law. He examines the diverse factors that have shaped & sometimes hindered the creation of pollution controls & natural resource management laws. Time, space, and ecological injury -- The implications of ecological injury for environmental protection law -- The challenges for U.S. lawmaking institutions and processes of environmental protection law -- Becoming environmental law -- Building a road : the 1970s -- Expanding the road : the 1980s -- Maintaining the road : the 1990s -- The emerging architecture of U.S. environmental law -- Changing conceptions of time and space redux : environmental law's future challenges -- Environmental law's second (and quite different) "republican moment" -- Conclusion : the graying of the green.