Add to ORKGLocal governments have recently expanded their efforts to abate pollution problems. The constitutionality of such local ordinances under both federal and state law, however, has not yet been adequately determined. In order to clarify the constitutional limits of local environmental laws, it is necessary to examine the relevant questions raised by both the United States Constitution and the various state constitutions. Part I of this comment will deal with the federal-local conflicts and Part II will discuss the state-local conflicts. In each of the two sections, relevant legislation in the environmental field will be discussed. Finally, a model statute will be offered as an example of the wide range of powers a locality can constitutionally...
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The purpose of this Comment is to examine the three congressional acts relating to air, water and no...
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This Article explains the role that local governments have assumed in protecting the environment, ex...
In 1972 the Supreme Court in Illinois v. City of Milwaukee established the federal common law of pub...
The scope of environmental law extends beyond the federal statutes most people associate with protec...
In this paper, Professor Philip Weinberg examines the relationships between local and state governme...
Indirectly, at least, the Constitution provides the federal government with power to regulate on beh...
Challenges to the expansion of local initiatives aimed at local environmental protection question th...
As commerce and industry have invaded once virgin lands and waters in an era of heightened environme...
Until quite recently it has been the accepted view that one of man\u27s chief functions was to contr...
EME Homer City Generation, L.P. v. EPA illustrates the difficulty the EPA faces as it attempts to fo...
People normally perceive environmental law to be a piecemeal of federal laws mostly concerned with t...
This Comment critiques the EPA\u27s use of its discretionary power in enforcing water pollution prob...
Local governments have recently expanded their efforts to abate pollution problems. The constitution...
As 2016’s national election made clear, striking ideological differences between cities and their su...
The purpose of this Comment is to examine the three congressional acts relating to air, water and no...
This comment explores whether Congress went too far in its effort to guide the states in the control...
This Article explains the role that local governments have assumed in protecting the environment, ex...
In 1972 the Supreme Court in Illinois v. City of Milwaukee established the federal common law of pub...
The scope of environmental law extends beyond the federal statutes most people associate with protec...
In this paper, Professor Philip Weinberg examines the relationships between local and state governme...
Indirectly, at least, the Constitution provides the federal government with power to regulate on beh...
Challenges to the expansion of local initiatives aimed at local environmental protection question th...
As commerce and industry have invaded once virgin lands and waters in an era of heightened environme...
Until quite recently it has been the accepted view that one of man\u27s chief functions was to contr...
EME Homer City Generation, L.P. v. EPA illustrates the difficulty the EPA faces as it attempts to fo...
People normally perceive environmental law to be a piecemeal of federal laws mostly concerned with t...
This Comment critiques the EPA\u27s use of its discretionary power in enforcing water pollution prob...