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Environmental Law

Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law

Working Paper Series

2013

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Environmental Law Outside The Canon, Todd S. Aagaard Jun 2013

Environmental Law Outside The Canon, Todd S. Aagaard

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It is time to rethink the domination of environmental law by a canon of major federal environmental statutes enacted in the 1970s. Environmental law is in a malaise. Despite widespread agreement that existing laws are inadequate to address current environmental problems, Congress has not passed a major environmental statute in more than twenty years. If it is to succeed, the environmental law of this new century may need to evolve into something that looks quite different than the extant environmental law canon. The next generation of environmental laws must be viable for creation and implementation even in an antagonistic political …