Environmental Law
Envt'l Law News Fall 2016, Vol. 25, No. 2
Content
- 2016-2017 Environmental Law Section Executive Committee
- California Chemicals Regulation After Tsca Reform
- Editor's Note...
- Environmental Law News Publications Committee
- New Standards for Ceqa Analysis of Greenhouse Gas Impacts
- Powering Down Chevron? Chevron Deference and the Clean Power Plan Litigation
- Regulating Groundwater in California: How the Landscape Is Changing with Sgma
- Table of Contents
- The Evolving Regulation of Tce Vapor Intrusion Issues
- California Groundwater Management: Laboratories of Local Implementation or State Command and Control?
California Groundwater Management: Laboratories of Local Implementation or State Command and Control?
by David R.E. Aladjem and Meredith E. Nikkel*
David R.E. Aladjem
Meredith E. Nikkel
The controversy over local or unified governance was debated before the formation of the United States, and continues today. In The Federalist No. 46, James Madison rejects fears that establishment of a federal government would result in "a meditated and consequential annihilation of the State governments" and argues that the "federal and State governments are in fact but different agents and trustees of the people, constituted with different powers, and designed for different purposes."1