Obama is truly ideologically committed to the leftist agenda of expanding government in irreversible ways.

Despite vigorous public support for environmental protection, the environment is a decisive issue for only a tiny segment of the electorate.

This issue of the Environmental Policy Outlook examines some basic aspects of sustainable development and reviews recent attempts to quantify the sustainability of the world economy.

Theidea of sustainable development has been around for nearly two decades, but its vagueness has kept it from being a useable guide for policy.