Environmental Policy in United States

Environmental Policy

Michael D. Jones, Elizabeth A. Shanahan, and Lisa J. Hammer, in the chapter “Environmental Policy” of the Oxford Handbook of State and Local Government, offers some insight and critically assesses the situation and current state of scholarship on the topic. The following is a summary:In this chapter the authors examine state and local environmental policy. They provide a brief historical but policy-centered background, which pays special attention to the role of federalism in environmental policy. Next they summarize the state of academic and scientific research on state and local environmental policy. The next two sections give the reader an aggregate sense of what substantive environmental policy areas are being studied by reporting the aggregated peer-reviewed publications reported in three databases between 1980 and 2011. In addition, the authors focus on two areas highlighted in the literature: public participation in environmental policy making and climate change policy. Finally, the authors provide a summary of the state of existing literature and offer directions for future research.

Further Reading

• “Environmental Policy”, The Oxford Handbook of American Politics

Citizen Suit for Injunctive Relief Pending Federal Agency’s Compliance With National Environmental Policy Act

This section discusses generally the subject of Citizen Suit for Injunctive Relief Pending Federal Agency’s Compliance With National Environmental Policy Act, how to determine the facts essential to Citizen Suit for Injunctive Relief Pending Federal Agency’s Compliance With National Environmental Policy Act, and, to some extent, how to prove it in litigation and defense. Related topics are also addressed.

Finding the law: Environmental Policy in the U.S. Code

A collection of general and permanent laws relating to environmental policy, passed by the United States Congress, are organized by subject matter arrangements in the United States Code (U.S.C.; this label examines environmental policy topics), to make them easy to use (usually, organized by legal areas into Titles, Chapters and Sections). The platform provides introductory material to the U.S. Code, and cross references to case law. View the U.S. Code’s table of contents here.