Environmental Law
Envt'l Law News Fall 2016, Vol. 25, No. 2
Content
- Environmental Law News Publications Committee
- New Standards for Ceqa Analysis of Greenhouse Gas Impacts
- California Chemicals Regulation After Tsca Reform
- Editor's Note...
- 2016-2017 Environmental Law Section Executive Committee
- Regulating Groundwater in California: How the Landscape Is Changing with Sgma
- California Groundwater Management: Laboratories of Local Implementation or State Command and Control?
- Table of Contents
- The Evolving Regulation of Tce Vapor Intrusion Issues
- Powering Down Chevron? Chevron Deference and the Clean Power Plan Litigation
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