Illegal Permit? Who Are You Going to Call? Your Local Environmental Law Clinic!

摘要

A central element of modern environmental law is public participation.' Empowered by citizen enforcement and judicial review provisions, citizen organizations have helped spark,2 shape,3 and police4 implementation of environmental statutes.5 The law's emphasis on public participation can give members of the public a voice in the decisions of unelected bureaucracies that can otherwise tend to stall or drift from congressionally authorized purposes.6