Farms and farming are intrinsically linked with human civilization, and have had a dramatic impact on our planet's landscape and environmental systems.¹ Environmental regulation in the United States, though young when compared to other fields of law, is a highly developed body of law. Unfortunately, a wide chasm exists between these two social endeavors—farms are virtually unregulated by the expansive body of environmental law that has developed in the United States in the past 30 years.

In its landmark decision in First English Evangelical Lutheran Church of Glendale v. County of Los Angeles,² the U.S. Supreme Court established that temporary regulatory takings must be compensated under the Fifth Amendment's Takings Clause.³ However, neither First English nor the Court's subsequent cases have comprehensively defined what constitutes a "temporary regulatory taking." Recently, the U.S.

Few environmental cases have received as much attention as American Trucking Ass'n v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency,² recently argued before the U.S. Supreme Court. Even readers of the mainstream press³ are aware that industrial petitioners have urged the Court to inject cost-benefit considerations into the Clean Air Act (CAA) ambient air quality standard-setting process, and in effect overrule the 20-year Lead Industries Ass'n v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency⁴ precedent of the D.C.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has argued, in its briefs filed with the U.S. Supreme Court in Browner v. American Trucking Ass'n, that the decision of the D.C.

Constitutionality of Endangered Species Act (ESA) Restrictions

This paper aims to facilitate discussion about specific reform proposals for Ukraine by illustrating the basic components of environmental impact assessment (EIA) with comparative analysis and recent developments from other countries' legislation and international law. Section I introduces EIA, provides a general overview of Ukrainian ecological expertiza law, and describes U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region V's EIA pilot project in Ukraine.

I. Introduction

Introduction

I. Introduction

The Constitution of the United States gives Congress the authority to "regulate Commerce . . . among the several States."¹ From the beginning of judicial review, the U.S. Supreme Court has struggled over defining how far that power extends.² Until recently, it seemed established that the Commerce Clause provided an extremely broad and expansive grant of power to Congress.³ However, with the 1995 decision of United States v.