Despite the fact that environmental policy has become increasinglyimportant in Ontario politics since the end of the Second World War,very little scholarship has been devoted to exploring either thedevelopment of that policy or the pivotal relationship between theenvironment and the province"s wider political economy. InBlue-Green Province, Mark Winfield provides the firstcomprehensive study of environmental policy in Ontario. A recognized authority in the field, Winfield masterfully explainsthe formulation and implementation of environmental policy inCanada"s most populous province, tracing its development throughthe Progressive Conservative dynasty that ruled Ontario politics fromthe mid-1940s to the mid-1980s, to the dramatically differentgovernments of Premiers Peterson, Rae, Harris, Eves, and McGuinty. Heoffers particularly trenchant coverage of the little-studied periodfollowing the Harris"s Common Sense Revolution, examining theimplications of the 1999, 2003, and 2007 elections...