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United States Supreme Court Rules Epa Must Take Action On Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Massachusetts V. Epa, Saillan De Charles
United States Supreme Court Rules Epa Must Take Action On Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Massachusetts V. Epa, Saillan De Charles
Natural Resources Journal
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Sustainable Living: Theme Of The Future Or A One-Hit Wonder, Michelle Hershman
Sustainable Living: Theme Of The Future Or A One-Hit Wonder, Michelle Hershman
Richmond Public Interest Law Review
Is environmental consciousness in the United States just a popular trend or the beginning of permanent changes? In light of the American government's refusal to ratify the Kyoto Protocol, this comment examines social, corporate and regulatory pressures on environmental policy in the United States. The author concludes by arguing for the implementation of environmentally conscious policies and programs at private and public levels.
Sustainable Living: Theme Of The Future Or A One-Hit Wonder, Michelle Hershman
Sustainable Living: Theme Of The Future Or A One-Hit Wonder, Michelle Hershman
Richmond Journal of Law and the Public Interest
Look out America; we have a "smug alert." No, not smog, "smug." According to the notorious cartoon, South Park, people who buy hybrid cars feel so good about saving the Earth, they become increasingly smug, which leads to all-out disaster.' Fortunately, for the town of South Park, one of its native children, Stan, convinces everyone it's alright to own a hybrid without being smug. Should we pass this episode off as another entertaining late night Comedy Central special, or have Matt Stone and Trey Parker stumbled onto a form of satire that's true in form and educational in its moral? …
Brownfields At 20: A Critical Reevaluation, Joel B. Eisen
Brownfields At 20: A Critical Reevaluation, Joel B. Eisen
Law Faculty Publications
Following a basic description of the New Jersey program, I will discuss two specific developments, the BDA initiative and the recent "Grace Period Rule," that changed some aspects of the program. My aim is more modest than a full-scale re-evaluation of all brownfields programs (or indeed of the New Jersey program in its totality); instead I look at the experience within one program to assess whether there is movement toward the development-centered approach. I find that some developments in New Jersey are positive, notably the BDA's approach to addressing multiple brownfield sites concurrently in the same location. On the other …
Remarks At The Climate Of Environmental Justice: Taking Stock Conference At The University Of Colorado Law School, March 16-17, 2007, Congressman Mike Udall
Remarks At The Climate Of Environmental Justice: Taking Stock Conference At The University Of Colorado Law School, March 16-17, 2007, Congressman Mike Udall
University of Colorado Law Review
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Disaster Mitigation Through Land Use Strategies, John R. Nolon
Disaster Mitigation Through Land Use Strategies, John R. Nolon
Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications
The persistent question this book raises is who should decide whether and how to mitigate the damages caused by natural disasters. Our understandable preoccupation with response, recovery, and rebuilding makes it hard to focus on this question as a central, even relevant, one. But it persists, nonetheless. The high-profile “blame game” played following Hurricane Katrina’s devastation of the Gulf Coast is emblematic. In pointing fingers first at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), then at the city of New Orleans, and then at the state of Louisiana, public officials exhibited an appalling lack of understanding of the roles that each …