Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Representative Jesse Jackson, Jr. (D-IL) discusses dual federalism in the context of the Tenth Amendment, as well as the conflicts between states' ...

When Andrew Wheeler became EPA acting administrator, he promised a federal-state partnership. "No. 1, we need to provide certainty to the states," Wheeler vowed in his first speech at the agency’s ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Congressional leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) discusses joint federal-state priorities at the 2016 National Governors Association Summer Meeting In a ...

“America” is a continent – actually two of them – but it is also a set of ideas, or, better said, a philosophy for how a community can govern itself to maximize freedom and creativity. Every ...

A central feature of the Clean Water Act (CWA) is cooperative federalism. In fact, right at the start of the statute, Congress made it clear that states are expected to take the leading role in ...

During the recent Supreme Court proceedings on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act, the notion of "coercive" federalism kept popping up. It is the idea that if states don't adopt this ...

Environmental policy making and implementation in the United States occurs within a federal system. This system has served its purpose for nearly five decades but is now being challenged by four ...

When it comes to fixing the broken politics of global warming in the United States, all eyes tend to focus on the global stage. However, the path to a national policy has already been paved, by the ...

The Trump Administration has spoken quite a bit about the need to curtail federal environmental regulation and facilitate greater state leadership in environmental policy. Yet while the Environmental ...