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Transboundary Air Pollution: The Legal Framework, Mark S. Squillace
Transboundary Air Pollution: The Legal Framework, Mark S. Squillace
Air Quality Protection in the West (November 27-28)
12 pages (includes illustrations).
Contains footnotes.
Agenda: Air Quality Protection In The West, University Of Colorado Boulder. Natural Resources Law Center
Agenda: Air Quality Protection In The West, University Of Colorado Boulder. Natural Resources Law Center
Air Quality Protection in the West (November 27-28)
Conference organizers, session moderators and/or speakers included University of Colorado School of Law professor Mark S. Squillace.
Visibility, acid rain, air toxics, and urban air pollution are the topics of an upcoming Center conference on air quality in the West. The conference will be held at the School of Law in Boulder on November 27-28, 1989. Presentations will describe the nature and scope of the issues, the existing legal framework and experience with its implementation, and proposed changes in the law. Emphasis will be placed on air quality issues in the West and efforts underway to address these problems. Special …
Integrating Thoughtways: Re-Opening Of The Environmental Mind?, Lakshman Guruswamy
Integrating Thoughtways: Re-Opening Of The Environmental Mind?, Lakshman Guruswamy
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The implementation of environmental law and policy has assumed that pollution could be contained, corralled and interdicted within the medium (air, land, or water) in which unpleasant effects are encountered. Sweeping, but piecemeal, federal legislation in the 1970s aspired to create healthy air, together with fishable, swimmable and drinkable waters. Despite impressive gains, these goals have not been achieved. There have been painful failures, compounded by the mounting costs of environmental protection. While the need for environmental protection is generally accepted, the effectiveness and efficiency of regulation based on the legislation of the 1970s has been questioned in the 1980s. …