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Ecology Comes Of Age: Nepa's Lost Mandate, Sam Kalen
Ecology Comes Of Age: Nepa's Lost Mandate, Sam Kalen
Sam Kalen Mr.
Twenty-first century challenges are testing the resiliency of our Nation’s environmental programs. As such, we need to appreciate the National Environmental Policy Act’s (NEPA) resiliency for addressing our society’s evolving threats. This requires a better understanding both from the academy as well as the judiciary of what Congress intended when it passed the Magna Carta of environmental laws. That too little attention has been paid to such a paradigm shifting statute is unfortunate. Existing histories of NEPA simply overlook what animated Congress when it passed this Nation’s environmental charter. This article, therefore, fills a significant gap that has existed in …
Ecology Comes Of Age: Nepa's Lost Mandate, Sam Kalen
Ecology Comes Of Age: Nepa's Lost Mandate, Sam Kalen
Sam Kalen Mr.
Twenty-first century challenges are testing the resiliency of our Nation’s environmental programs. As such, we need to appreciate the National Environmental Policy Act’s (NEPA) resiliency for addressing our society’s evolving threats. This requires a better understanding both from the academy as well as the judiciary of what Congress intended when it passed the Magna Carta of environmental laws. That too little attention has been paid to such a paradigm shifting statute is unfortunate. Existing histories of NEPA simply overlook what animated Congress when it passed this Nation’s environmental charter. This article, therefore, fills a significant gap that has existed in …