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Environmental Law's Heartland And Frontiers, Todd S. Aagaard
Environmental Law's Heartland And Frontiers, Todd S. Aagaard
Pace Environmental Law Review
This short paper offers three propositions to help maintain the traditional core of environmental law while also expanding environmental concerns into the frontiers of the field: 1. Environmental law in the heartland and environmental law at the frontiers of the field differ in important ways. 2. The distinctive features of the heartland and frontiers provide important functional benefits for the adaptive development of environmental law in each respective area. 3. Maintaining a distinctive heartland and frontiers of environmental law creates a dialectic relationship between the two that includes tension but also, if properly managed, potential synergies.
The locus of innovation …
Environmental Law In Austerity, James Salzman, J.B. Ruhl, Jonathan Remy Nash
Environmental Law In Austerity, James Salzman, J.B. Ruhl, Jonathan Remy Nash
Pace Environmental Law Review
The EPA has always had enemies. Vigorously denouncing EPA's activities as “overzealous,” “job killing,” or a “regulatory train wreck” has become commonplace on the campaign trail and from special interest groups covered by the agency's reach. Perhaps this is to be expected, since EPA's regulations influence a remarkably wide range of activities throughout the country. The agency, though, has been subject to far more than just harsh rhetoric.
Over the past three decades, there have been concerted efforts in Congress to restrain the EPA both by legislation and, less directly, by reducing its resources. Crippling amendments have largely failed but …