Year: 2013
Type: article
Abstract: Major environmental policy reform is long overdue.The current regulatory architecture was erected in the 1970s.Since then meaningful reforms have been few and far between.A few reforms and regulatory expansions were adopted in the 1980s, 1 and Congress enacted significant reforms to the Clean Air Act in 1990.2 Only the most minor environmental bills have been enacted since then.3In 1996, Richard Stewart observed that conventional environmental regulation was a "failing paradigm."4 At the same time, analysts at Resources for the Future concluded that America's environmental regulatory system was "deeply and fundamentally flawed."5 Other contemporaneous reviews of federal environmental regulation reached similar conclusions.6 Yet, little has happened.
Author: Jonathan H. Adler
Institution: Case Western Reserve University
Language: English
Topic: Environmental law and policy
Subfield: Law
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W201974196