Rationally superior cross-media reform failed for lack of political support.

Evidence

When, for instance, the Conservation Foundation and the (senior) Bush administration Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) sought in the midand late 1980s to promote the kind of “cross-media” or “multimedia” approach to environmental pollution control that had long been highly touted and that seemed to make so much sense in theory, the proposal had turned out to lack any political legs. — Richard J. Lazarus, The Making of Environmental Law, 738

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth chasing: what exactly killed the cross-media proposal — which stakeholder blocked it first and why.
• XREF: connects to: Environmental law’s settlement into ordinary life also dulled its effectiveness. — Richard J. Lazarus, The Making of Environmental Law, 732; Media-by-media statutes let pollution migrate to the least-regulated pathway. — Richard J. Lazarus, The Making of Environmental Law, 739; Evidence-based advocacy fails when the political configuration is unready for it — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 9030 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Evidence-based advocacy fails when the political configuration is unready for it #corroborates (0.85) — , The Rod and the Child, 9030
• The liberal-hegemony consensus ended because it could no longer be politically sustained #corroborates (0.75)