Georgetown University Law Center Scholarship @ GEORGETOWN LAW 1991 The Tragedy of Distrust in the Implementation of Federal Environmental Law Richard J. Lazarus Georgetown University Law Center,
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[email protected] This paper can be downloaded without charge from: Scholarly Commons: http://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/facpub/153/ Posted with permission of the author THE TRAGEDY OF DISTRUST IN THE IMPLEMENTATION OF FEDERAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW RICHARD J. LAZARUS· I INTRODUCTION In the dream, it works something like this: The huge hall of Environmental Control is lit from above. Operators below press controls and the translucent dome glows with the streams slashing the Upper Atmosphere, shaping the world's weather. Other controls are pressed and the flow changes color. Now it illuminates the Middle Atmosphere over America, showing regional smog-bearing inversions that may lock over cities within hours. In and out of walls glide panels on which river basins shine with flood-crest warnings or change hue to show rise and fall of pollution .