Rachel Carson 
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
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Spin Doctors Have Shaped the Environmental Debate for Decades
by Melissa Aronczyk
E. Bruce Harrison shifted American business's response to the environmental movement from a posture of denial and refusal to one of strategic compromise that elevated industry's scientists to an authoritative position which has kept a brake on green reforms and regulation.
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6/16/19
Silent Spring: Why Rachel Carson’s words still ring true today
by Catherine Whitlock
Any future US president would do well to heed the likes of Rachel Carson and her successors and invest in clean energy policies, protect the environment, and promote biodiversity.
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