Environmental & Energy
Apr. 10, 2009
A Return to Environmental Federalism?
The early signs from the Obama administration seem promising for a new era of cooperative federalism in environmental policymaking.
Richard M. Frank
Professor of Environmental Practice, UC Davis School of Law
Richard is director of the California Environmental Law & Policy Center at the UC Davis School of Law.
There are some encouraging signs - most of them emanating from Washington, D.C. - that environmental federalism is making a comeback. It's about time.
The core notion of environmental federalism is that state and federal governments have a partnership role in formulating environmental law and policy in the United States. Most of the major federal environmental legislation passed in the late 1960s and early 1970s - legislation that ushered in the modern era of environmental law - c...For only $95 a month (the price of 2 article purchases)
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