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Michigan Water Resources Commission Act Amendments: A Response To The Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments Of 1972, Jeffrey K. Haynes
Michigan Water Resources Commission Act Amendments: A Response To The Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments Of 1972, Jeffrey K. Haynes
University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform
This article appraises the strengths and weaknesses of the WRC Act and its recent amendments. After a description of the federal impetus behind the new amendments, the Michigan statutory framework is evaluated, including comparison of the WRC Act with a model state act designed to meet FWPCA requirements. Finally, the past implementation of the Act is discussed, with suggestions for future improvement.
The Constitutional Framework Of Environmental Law, Philip Soper
The Constitutional Framework Of Environmental Law, Philip Soper
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For federal and state legislators .seeking legal solutions to environmental problems, "constitutional law" is a part of "environmental law" only in the indirect sense of providing the basic legal framework with which substantive environmental standards-like all legislative standards-must ultimately comport. When Congress, for example, enacts legislation to control pollution or to protect endangered species, the constitutional issue theoretically presented is whether such legislation exceeds limits placed by the Framers on federal legislative authority. These limits may result either from the lack of federal power to deal with the problem or from conflict between a federal regulatory scheme and the constitutional …