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The third edition of American Environmental Leaders: From Colonial Times to the Present offers comprehensive updates to the second edition ( CH, Jul'09, 46-5955). This two-volume set now includes 399 profiles of individuals, both historical and contemporary, who have had an impact on American environmental challenges. Every effort was made to include a diverse group: activists, philosophers, toxicologists, naturalists, artists, physicians, sociologists, authors, politicians, entrepreneurs, and more. In addition to the most well-known figures, this book deliberately incorporates less familiar names of those who have worked behind the scenes in some aspect of environmental work. The third edition continues to highlight major environmental problems such as pollution, pesticide use, wilderness protection, species diversity, and the like. The book also reflects the expanding and worsening realm of environmental problems, including human-caused global warming, environmental justice issues, chlorofluorocarbons and the ozone, accelerated species extinction rate, and more. This edition includes two sections that might be considered the most valuable parts of the book: "25 Key Documents" is a chronological assemblage of articles, book excerpts, essays, and speeches that document the growing environmental challenges over the past several centuries; "Timeline of American Environmentalism" provides a timetable of the tempo of environmental priorities in the US and is especially useful for listing post-2010 ecological concerns. The 2018 edition is an essential purchase for public, university, and high school libraries with its updated details regarding the most current environmental concerns, significant legislation, technological advances, the pace of global warming, and extreme weather events and the direction toward environmental justice.Summing Up: Essential. Undergraduates, graduate students, and general readers.