Abstract
As a presidential candidate, Donald Trump promised to curtail federal environmental regulation and empower the states. Has the Trump Administration made good on these pledges to reinvigorate cooperative federalism and constrain environmental regulatory overreach by the federal government? Perhaps less than one would think. This Essay provides a critical assessment of the Trump Administration’s approach to environmental federalism. Despite the Administration’s embrace of “cooperative federalism” rhetoric, environmental policy reforms have not consistently embodied a principled approach to environmental federalism in which the state and federal governments are each encouraged to focus resources on areas of comparative advantage.
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2020
Publication Information
71 Hastings Law Journal 1101-1125 (2020)
Repository Citation
Adler, Jonathan H., "Uncooperative Environmental Federalism 2.0" (2020). Faculty Publications. 2273.
https://scholarship.law.wm.edu/facpubs/2273
Comments
Written for the symposium "Revolution or Evolution? Administrative Law in the Age of Trump" (2020) at UC Hastings College of the Law.