The 1995 Contract with America reforms would have rivaled the original environmental-law revolution

Evidence

Any one of these legislative proposals, if enacted, could have fundamentally changed the structure of federal environmental law. Their cumulative impact would have been almost as revolutionary as the lawmaking effort that had created modern environmental protection law in the early 1970s. — Richard J. Lazarus, The Making of Environmental Law, 580

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Nearly all 1995 Contract with America environmental rollbacks failed to become law — Richard J. Lazarus, The Making of Environmental Law, 581; The 1995 Contract with America targeted environmental law on four specific fronts — Richard J. Lazarus, The Making of Environmental Law, 23