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The word is our: the Supreme Court is poised to roll back the Chevron doctrine. Set out in Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council (1984), the opinion states that when [...]

On April Fool's Day of 2018, an abandoned Chinese satellite named Heavenly Palace fell out of orbit and plunged into the Pacific Ocean. There's a half million pieces of detritus [...]

'A senior EPA executive, who has to remain nameless ... thought a concept like REINS was a great idea for two reasons.... [First] was his unutterable frustration that the Congress [...]

PRESIDENT RICHARD NIXON CREATED THE Environmental Protection Agency and Congress passed the Clean Air Act in 1970 because the public demanded protection. The pollution that worried voters most was lead [...]

Two fundamental changes in legislative lawmaking have to take place before it can effectively supplement common law in making a workable pollution control. First, only environmental issues that cannot be handled properly by the states will be dealt with by the national government. Second, legislation should enact rules of conduct and not abstract ideals. This means that lawmaking bodies, not administrative agencies, should make the laws. This will make lawmakers accountable to the electorate for the decisions they have made.

The members of this panel were asked to assess Richard Stewart's contributions to administrative law, but my knowledge of that field is too fragmentary to capture the totality of his sweeping impact. I will instead focus on only a minor part of it, but in a way that, I hope, sheds light on why his overall impact has been so great. That minor part is his effect on one lesser scholar, me. Showing why he had such a huge impact on my work over the decades will suggest why he has enriched the work of so many around him and has thereby improved the law. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Environmental policies should be determined by state and local governments because they are directly accountable to the people. Under the current system, the federal government prescribes environmental solutions to most local environmental problems through EPA without consideration of local wishes. Ordinary citizens, therefore, cannot effectively hold national officials responsible for the environmental policies. Reform of the EPA is proposed.

AMONG PRESIDENT Bush's critics during his first two years in office--setting aside the area of foreign policy--none has been more vocal or more effective than the environmental movement. On one [...]

Recent times have been hard on those of us who dreamed of trusting farsighted and benevolent leaders dedicated to high-minded ideals. Not only is Communism dead, but Americans have learned [...]