Clinton’s executive branch defeated 1990s rollbacks by mobilizing public hostility, reversing 1970s roles

Evidence

Somewhat ironically, the executive branch under Clinton used the same tactics against Congress that Congress had used against the Nixon, Reagan, and Bush administrations during the 1970s and 1980s. Just as Congress had effectively exploited the public’s distrust of government to defeat earlier retreats from environmental protection, so did the Clinton administration block Congress in the 1990s. … The U.S. public responded with such hostility to any proposed change that the legislative reform effort was effectively sapped of its political viability. — Richard J. Lazarus, The Making of Environmental Law, 583

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Clinton agencies made major environmental policy without new statutes. — Richard J. Lazarus, The Making of Environmental Law, 700