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Environmental Law: Government and Public Policy Towards the Environment

Environmental Science

What is Environmental Law? Humanity has been aware of its environment far longer than there have been laws to protect environments. However, the term “environmental law” does not just cover government legislation. These are not “laws” per se but act as such within a regulatory framework. Sponsored Content.

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EPA Jumps the Shark

Legal Planet

Administrative law requires a lot more than brave posturing. Zeldin can no more supply those than he can refute the law of gravity. (“But, helium balloons!”). Of course, inside the rightwing bubble, all kinds of wild assertions can be made, and critics can be conveniently ignored.

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Dissecting the Attacks on the Endangerment Finding

Legal Planet

There, the Court said that EPA had to consider cost when EPA applied a law that authorized EPA to issue appropriate regulations. I expect that EPA will rely on a newer Supreme Court case, Michigan v. EPA, to argue that consideration of costs is required. But that case was very different. A case that is more clearly relevant is Whitman v.