• Preface: The Citizen Environmentalists
• List of Acronyms and Abbreviations
• POWER TO THE PUBLIC HEARING
• The Importance of Citizenship to the Environmental Movement
• Choosing Citizenship
• Citizen Standing
• The Language of Participatory Democracy
• Public Hearings and Dialectical Relationships
• The League of Women Voters and Public Hearings
• THE SMOKY CITY
• Public Involvement in Controlling Air Pollution in Pittsburgh
• Making the City Smoky
• Responding to Smoke and Pollution before 1969
• Regulatory Success without the Public
• Getting in the Door: gasp and Air Pollution Control after 1969
• Citizen Standing, gasp, and the Variance Board in 1970
• “I BELONG HERE!”
• Citizen Environmentalism in Pittsburgh and the United States
• The People and Organization of GASP
• Representative Membership and Social Capital
• Increases in Citizen Environmentalism across the Nation
• In Defense of nimby: On the Subject of Names
• MOTHERS OF URBAN SKIES
• Environmental Education and the Rhetoric of Women’s Activism
• Pittsburgh and the Women of GASP
• Flour Power and gasp’s Educational Mission
• The Language of Maternalism
• “WHERE THE RUBBER MEETS THE ROAD”
• Implementation and the Rhetoric of Scientific Expertise at the Variance Board, 1970–1975
• The Devil in the Details
• Actors on Stage
• The Gendered Language of Expertise and Professionalism
• Reaching the Limits of Local Control
• CITIZENS AND THE COURTS
• United States Steel, Jones & Laughlin, and the Limits of Local Control
• Pittsburgh’s Industrial Landscape
• The Clairton Saga
• The Language of Job Loss, U.S. Steel, and Jones & Laughlin
• CONCLUSION
• The Significance of the Citizen Environmentalists for the Modern Environmental Movement, in Pittsburgh’s Experiment, and in GASP
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index
• Illustrations follow page 111
