Pub. date: 2008 | Online Pub. Date: April 25, 2008 | DOI:
10.4135/9781412963893 | Print ISBN: 9781412958783 | Online ISBN:
9781412963893| Publisher:SAGE Publications, Inc.About this
encyclopedia Gordon P. Rands & Pamela Rands ENVIRONMENTAL
DEFENSE (ED) , an environmental advocacy group headquartered in
New York, began when a group of scientists teamed up with a
lawyer, went to court, won a battle to ban the pesticide DDT,
and incorporated as the Environmental Defense Fund in 1967.
Environmental Defense now prefers to work creatively, without
confrontation, for solutions to environmental challenges, the
most serious of which it views as global warming, “through
partnership with powerful market leaders.” ED prides itself on
having on staff “more Ph.D. scientists and economists than any
similar group” and is noted for its “rigorous scientific
approach.” It seeks not only to oppose policies that it deems
detrimental to the environment, but also to propose workable,
innovative alternatives. In 2007, Environmental