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The Public Trust Doctrine, Property, And Society, Erin Ryan
The Public Trust Doctrine, Property, And Society, Erin Ryan
Scholarly Publications
The public trust doctrine creates a set of sovereign rights and responsibilities with regard to certain resource commons, obligating the state to manage them in trust for the public. In the last century, the doctrine has gradually transformed from an affirmation of sovereign authority over trust resources to a recognition of sovereign responsibility to protect them for present and future generations. Especially in the United States, it has evolved through common, constitutional, and statutory law to protect a broader variety of resources and associated values, including ecological, recreational, and scenic values. Today, the doctrine is frequently invoked in natural resource …
The Twin Environmental Law Problems Of Preemption And Political Scale, Erin Ryan
The Twin Environmental Law Problems Of Preemption And Political Scale, Erin Ryan
Scholarly Publications
This is a daunting moment for the United States environmental movement. Since 2017, it often seems that federal environmental law is being systematically dismantled—most aggressively by the executive branch, but with tacit support from much of the sitting legislature, and likely with increasing support from the judiciary as well. For environmentalists, the assault on the regulatory accomplishments made over decades of previous lawmaking is cause for grief, but it also compels preparation for the challenges yet to come. This chapter advises environmentalists to resist federal preemption of state regulation and to think creatively about how to accomplish the goals of …
Environmental Law. Disrupted., Erin Ryan
Environmental Law. Disrupted., Erin Ryan
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The U.S. regulatory environment is changing rapidly, at the same time that visible and profound impacts of climate change are already being felt throughout the world, and enormous, potentially existential threats loom in the not-so-distant future. What does it mean to think about and practice environmental law in this setting? In this latest in a biannual series of postings and essays, the authors, members of the Environmental Law Collaborative (ELC), have taken on the question of whether environmental law as we currently know it is up to the job of addressing these threats; and, if not, what the path forward …
Memo To Environmentalists: Brace For The Three Ps, Erin Ryan
Memo To Environmentalists: Brace For The Three Ps, Erin Ryan
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This very short essay, written as a memo to environmental advocates during a destabilizing moment in environmental law, advises them to (1) resist federal preemption of state regulation, (2) scrutinize the strategic deployment of property rights to block future regulation, and (3) think creatively about how to accomplish the goals of national-level policy without the benefit of federal authority. In short, it advises that advocates ensure that the campaign to dismantle federal environmental law does not spill over into displacing state and local efforts to fill the void. They also must push back against the strategic deployment of property rights …
Breathing Air With Heft: An Experiential Report On Environmental Law And Public Health In China, Erin Ryan
Breathing Air With Heft: An Experiential Report On Environmental Law And Public Health In China, Erin Ryan
Scholarly Publications
This article explores the gritty intersections of daily life and environmental law in modern China, an industrial powerhouse still struggling to reconcile economic opportunity with breathable air, clean water, healthy food, and safe products. With comparative perspective on analogous challenges in the United States, the article reports on these critical domestic challenges for China at a pivotal moment in its reemergence as a dominant world power. China’s continued geopolitical rise may well hinge on its ability to respond successfully to the environmental causes of growing social unrest. In 2011, in the midst of this maelstrom, I brought my husband, young …
Negotiating Environmental Federalism: Dynamic Federalism As A Strategy For Good Governance, Erin Ryan
Negotiating Environmental Federalism: Dynamic Federalism As A Strategy For Good Governance, Erin Ryan
Scholarly Publications
This symposium piece distills a few important points from my previous research about the need for negotiated governance and the options for accomplishing it—including Negotiating Federalism (https://ssrn.com/abstract=1583132), which identified the pervasive use of intergovernmental bargaining as a tool for dealing with jurisdictional uncertainty; FEDERALISM AND THE TUG OF WAR WITHIN (https://ssrn.com/abstract=1991612), which folded the concept of negotiated governance into a general theory of Balanced Federalism, exploring how contrasting federalism values are managed by various means of consultation, competition, and collaboration; and Environmental Federalism’s Tug of War Within, (https://ssrn.com/abstract=2532687), the closing chapter to an environmental federalism book, in which I applied …
Response To Heather Gerken's Federalism And Nationalism: Time For A Détente?, Erin Ryan
Response To Heather Gerken's Federalism And Nationalism: Time For A Détente?, Erin Ryan
Scholarly Publications
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The Spending Power And Environmental Law After Sebelius, Erin Ryan
The Spending Power And Environmental Law After Sebelius, Erin Ryan
Scholarly Publications
This article analyzes the Supreme Court’s new spending power doctrine and its impact on state-federal bargaining in programs of cooperative federalism, using the laboratory of environmental law. (It expands on the legal analysis in an Issue Brief originally published by the American Constitution Society on Oct. 1, 2013.) After the Supreme Court ruled in the highly charged Affordable Care Act case of 2012, National Federation of Independent Business vs. Sebelius, the political arena erupted in debate over the implications for the health reform initiative and, more generally, the reach of federal law. Analysts fixated on the decision’s dueling Commerce Clause …
The Paper Tiger Gets Teeth: Developments In Chinese Environmental Law, Erin Ryan
The Paper Tiger Gets Teeth: Developments In Chinese Environmental Law, Erin Ryan
Scholarly Publications
This very short essay reports on the 2014 amendments to China’s Environmental Protection Law, following a series of internationally reported air and water pollution crises leading to unprecedented public protests. The changes promise more meaningful oversight of industrial pollution and harsher penalties for violations, targeting not only polluters but officials who fail to enforce applicable regulations against them. The amendments also empower certain non-governmental organizations to bring environmental litigation on behalf of the public. Official news accounts openly acknowledge the government’s hope that increased public access to legal redress will reduce the growing trend of mass environmental protests. These are …
Environmental Law After Sebelius: Will The Court’S New Spending Power Limits Affect Environmental State-Federal Partnerships?, Erin Ryan
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This issue brief, invited by the American Constitution Society, analyzes the regulatory impacts of the new spending power doctrine in the Supreme Court’s 2012 health reform decision, National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius. In Sebelius, a plurality of the Supreme Court held that portions of the Affordable Care Act exceeded federal authority under the Spending Clause. With that holding, Sebelius became the first Supreme Court decision since the New Deal to limit an act of Congress on spending power grounds, rounding out the “New Federalism” limits on federal power first initiated by the Rehnquist Court in the 1990s. The …
Federalism At The 'Cathedral': Property Rules, Liability Rules, And Inalienability Rules In Tenth Amendment Infrastructure, Erin Ryan
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As the climate crisis, war in the Middle East, and the price of oil focus American determination to move beyond fossil fuels, nuclear power has resurfaced as a possible alternative. But heady plans for energy reform may be stalled by an unlikely policy deadlock stemming from a structural technicality in an aging Supreme Court decision: New York v. United States, which set forth the Tenth Amendment anti-commandeering rule in 1992. The same dry technicality has also threatened the effective management of storm water pollution, contributed to the failed response to Hurricane Katrina, and poses ongoing regulatory obstacles in such critical …
Fsu Law Magazine (Winter 1995), Florida State University College Of Law Office Of Advancement And Alumni Affairs
Fsu Law Magazine (Winter 1995), Florida State University College Of Law Office Of Advancement And Alumni Affairs
Alumni Newsletter & FSU Law Magazine
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Kleppe V. Sierra Club, 427 U.S. 390 (1976), Martha L. Harrell
Kleppe V. Sierra Club, 427 U.S. 390 (1976), Martha L. Harrell
Florida State University Law Review
Environmental Law- NEPA- REGIONAL IMPACT STATEMENT IS NOT REQUIRED IN THE ABSENCE OF FORMAL PROPOSAL FOR REGIONAL ACTIVITY.
Updating Eminent Domain For Environmental Control, Karl Jeffery Reynolds
Updating Eminent Domain For Environmental Control, Karl Jeffery Reynolds
Florida State University Law Review
No abstract provided.
The Florida Environmental Protection Act Of 1971: The Citizen's Role In Environmental Management, Patricia A. Renovitch
The Florida Environmental Protection Act Of 1971: The Citizen's Role In Environmental Management, Patricia A. Renovitch
Florida State University Law Review
No abstract provided.