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The article discusses efforts to remove two dams along the Elwha River along the Olympic Peninsula of Washington State during the late 20th century. It examines the political activism of environmentalists and politicians in the passage of the U.S. Elwha River and Ecosystem Fisheries Restoration Act in 1992. It discusses the environmental impact of the dams, particularly upon salmon, salmon fishing, and river habitats.

I use the case of New York to explore how federal activism in the wake of crisis affects US urban regimes. Multiscalar policy networks, formerly used to extend neoliberalism to subnational levels, now feature an odd mix of progressives and neoliberals. I use the idea of path dependence to explain this indeterminacy in terms of the contradictory effects of US federalism on national regime forma- tion: while federalism provided havens for progressives to mobilize for regime change, it also anchors defenders of neoliberalism and its legacies. The Obama administration has exploited crisis to move scalar relations in a progressive direction. This has brought some changes to New York's neoliberal regime. That, along with the White House's cool reaction to recent proposals from New York, suggest a break with the neoliberal apparatus. Yet neoliberal legacies constrain efforts to institutionalize new federal roles and scalar relations, leaving the New York regime unsettled. What seems the likely result is a hererodox national regime that combines state and market mechanisms and a policy network open to heterogeneous influences-a mix where progressives are back in contention, if not necessarily in control. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Instead of top-down federalism, a carbon portfolio standard would engage states in collaborative federalism in which responsibility for achieving a national goal is shared between Washington and the states consistent with constitutional roles. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

The article discusses the philosophical aspects of federalism in the U.S. in light of issues of state and federal income taxation policies and the responsibilities of government appropriate at both the state and federal levels. The author looks at the role of government according to former U.S. President Thomas Jefferson, the relations between the federal and state governments regarding government spending and other fiscal policies, as well as the fiscal policies of Washington state related to social services. Topics include federal budget cuts in relation to the concept of "new federalism," or state-based governance, as well as the 1982 unemployment rate of Washington state.