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A Primer: Air And Water Environmental Quality Standards In The United States, Jason J. Czarnezki
A Primer: Air And Water Environmental Quality Standards In The United States, Jason J. Czarnezki
Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications
This article, designed as a resource for environmental law professors both domestically and abroad, addresses how environmental quality standards are created, implemented, and enforced in the United States. The answers to these questions are useful to those teaching U.S. environmental law and international scholars, especially in the European Union, who are faced with the challenge of creating new environmental quality standards under both national and EU directives. It must be noted that this project is complicated by the federal system within the country, and, thus, attention must be devoted to the federal-state relationship. In fact, the major relevant statutes, the …