Using Federalism to Improve Environmental Policy - Paperback

by Henry N. Butler (Author), Jonathan R. Macey (Author)

This provocative read tackles the gridlock of federal environmental regulation head-on, as legal scholars Henry N. Butler and Jonathan R. Macey make the case for decentralizing environmental policy through federalism, exposing how command-and-control regulations stifle innovation, investment, and effective enforcement, offering a bold blueprint for reforming environmental law, air pollution standards, and regulatory authority for a more responsive and adaptive system.

This book explores the effects of current regulatory policies and proposes a radical restructuring of the environmental regulatory authority.

Back Jacket

The centralization of environmental regulation has led to inflexibility and inertia in the federal government as it attempts to respond to widely diverse problems. That attempt has also penalties on innovation and investment.