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Annual Survey Of Virginia Law: Environmental Law, Henry R. Pollard V.
Annual Survey Of Virginia Law: Environmental Law, Henry R. Pollard V.
University of Richmond Law Review
Federal and Virginia courts and legislatures acted on a wide variety of environmental issues and topics in the June 1995 to June 1996 period. This article reviews the key environmental developments at the federal and state level from that period involving air, water, waste, Superfund, wetlands, and environmentally related constitutional, land use, and property tort law.
Transportation Conformity And Land-Use Planning: Understanding The Inconsistencies, D. Brennen Keene
Transportation Conformity And Land-Use Planning: Understanding The Inconsistencies, D. Brennen Keene
University of Richmond Law Review
Since the boom of federal environmental laws in the early 1970s, Congress, federal administrative agencies, and the states have grappled with how best to obtain the lofty goals of these laws. As evidence of this struggle, Congress has made substantial amendments to several major environmental laws on one or more occasions in order to achieve these goals, and the states have followed suit in order to keep pace with the changes on the federal level. The resulting mass of state and federal environmental laws and regulations has led to a series of complex, and often confusing, layers of laws and …