Environmental administration, the courts and public policy
Of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's seven major enabling statues, six contain citizen suit provisions which reward anti-EPA plaintiffs. this fact, coupled with the agency's increasing use of the courts to bolster its enforcement efforts, yield a multitude of avenues through which courts have affected the policies and administration of the agency. the article discusses how the courts have affected the EPA in the 1980s and then briefly assesses the implications of such court agency interaction for the successful operation of public agemcies in the next decade