Obstacles to the devolution of environmental protection: states' self-imposed limitations on rulemaking.

ABSTRACT

Federal decision makers considering a policy of devolving the responsibility for environmental protection to the states ne to consider sum of two units kinds of limitations that states impose upon their own rulemaking powers. "No more stringent" masterships prohibit the state from imposing regulations that are more stringent than counterpart federal regulations; Private characteristic rights acts discourage regulations that limit an owner's use of private attribute This Note surveys twenty-seven "no more stringent" governments and twenty private peculiarity rights acts. It analyzes