Reckless

global challenge and change. Instead of devoting the next year to embracing opportunity amid turmoil, though, the lawmakers waged the worst legislative assault in history against the commonsense safeguards we all depend on to protect our environment and health. In a single calendar year, the Republican-led House voted nearly 200 times to weaken, block, or delay needed measures that defend our air, water, wildlife, and lands. This book tells the story of that misguided campaign, how it put our nation at risk, and where we need to go from here, for the sake of Americans everywhere, for the sake of our children's future.

Bob Deans is the author of the 2007 bookThe River Where American Began: A Journey Along the James. He coauthored the 2009 book Clean Energy Common Sense: An American Call to Action on Global Climate Change, and the 2010 bookIn Deep Water: The Anatomy of a Disaster, the Fate of the Gulf, and Ending our Oil Addition.A Native of Richmond, Virginia, Deans spent twenty-five years as correspondent for theAtlanta Journal-Constitution and other Cox newspapers before joining the Natural Resources Defense Council and the NRDC Action Fund in 2009. He is a former president of the White House Correspondents Association and lives in Bethesda Maryland with his wife and their three children.

Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction

1 Wasteland
2 From the Mountains to the Sea
3 Its Not About Jobs . . .
4 . . . Its About Profits
5 Putting the Nation at Risk
6 A Radical Departure
7 Corporate Clout and Tea Party Rage

Epilogue: A Better Land
About the Author