The 1995 Contract with America targeted environmental law on four specific fronts

Evidence

A few years later, in 1995, the Contract with America promoted by Speaker of the House of Representatives Newt Gingrich and the 104th Congress was deliberately designed to cut back on environmental laws by reducing federal budgets used for their implementation, by relaxing requirements that states implement environmental controls, by permitting industry to emit higher levels of pollution, and by compensating property owners for reductions in property value resulting from environmental restrictions. — Richard J. Lazarus, The Making of Environmental Law, 23

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Environmental statutes are radical redistributive acts passed through deliberately conservative institutions — Richard J. Lazarus, The Making of Environmental Law, 18; Nearly all 1995 Contract with America environmental rollbacks failed to become law — Richard J. Lazarus, The Making of Environmental Law, 581; The 1995 Contract with America reforms would have rivaled the original environmental-law revolution — Richard J. Lazarus, The Making of Environmental Law, 580 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• The 1995 Contract with America reforms would have rivaled the original environmental-law revolution #expands (0.80) — Richard J. Lazarus, The Making of Environmental Law, 580
• The Bell Curve’s science served as electoral ammunition for the 1994 Contract with America #corroborates (0.75) — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 1137