Environment Regulation
The state role in environmental regulation and enforcement varies significantly across the spectrum of environmental issues and programs. In some environmental programs, particularly those involving regulation of nationally marketed commodities, Congress has left the states no regulatory role: Federal statutes wholly preempt state regulation and enforcement, leaving policymaking, standard setting, and enforcement entirely in federal hands. More commonly, the states are junior partners in joint federal-state regulatory enterprises, where the federal government defines national environmental policy and sets standards (although it may allow the states to adopt stricter standards), and federally approved state agencies issue and enforce permits subject to federal oversight. Finally, in a few environmental programs, the federal government has permitted and even encouraged the states to adopt parallel regulatory programs. A few federal environmental programs, particularly those directly......
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