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Article: Reinventing Environmental Enforcement and the State-Federal Relationship.(Book Review)
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- Environmental Law
- Article date:
- September 22, 2003
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Since the early 1990s, disturbing increases in significant noncompliance with federal environmental requirements have been accompanied by, and are perhaps at least partially a result, of a widespread "devolution" of responsibilities for environmental enforcement from federal to state officials along with--particularly, but not exclusively, at the state level--the replacement of formalized, deterrent enforcement with "cooperation-based" approaches to encouraging environmental compliance. In Reinventing Environmental Enforcement and the State-Federal Relationship, Clifford Rechtschaffen and David L. Markell provide deep insights into these events and trends. After ...