Environmental lawmaking conflict is a necessary feature, not a failing.

Evidence

By their very nature, moreover, environmental problems promote just such intragovernmental conflict in lawmaking. Each conflict is directly traceable to the spatial and temporal features of environmental degradation and, accordingly, are a necessary expression of our lawmaking system rather than evidence of institutional failure. — Richard J. Lazarus, The Making of Environmental Law, 418

Categorization

• XREF: Pays off chapter 1’s claim about ecological injury scales being ill-suited to lawmaking institutions. — connects to: Three institutional changes caused the 1990s environmental-lawmaking collapse. — Richard J. Lazarus, The Making of Environmental Law, 667; Both sides treat environmental regulation as an absolute-rights matter, precluding economic compromise — Richard J. Lazarus, The Making of Environmental Law, 150