In this text Mark Dowie reveals the inside stories behind American environmentalism's triumphs and failures, in an attempt to explain why, what was once a promising political movement, is now being pushed to what he considers to be the brink of irrelevance.

Losing Ground unveils the inside stories behind American environmentalism's undeniable triumphs and its quite unnecessary failures. Journalist Mark Dowie, who broke the stories on the Dalkon Shield and the Ford Pinto, delivers an insightful, informative, and often damning account of the movement many historians and social commentators at one time expected to be this century's most significant.