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Toward A Climate Change Strategy For Pennsylvania, John C. Dernbach Dec 2003

Toward A Climate Change Strategy For Pennsylvania, John C. Dernbach

John C. Dernbach

No abstract provided.


Introduction, Symposium Facing Climate Change: Opportunity And Tool For States, John C. Dernbach Dec 2003

Introduction, Symposium Facing Climate Change: Opportunity And Tool For States, John C. Dernbach

John C. Dernbach

No abstract provided.


Making Sustainable Development Happen: From Johannesburg To Albany, John C. Dernbach Dec 2003

Making Sustainable Development Happen: From Johannesburg To Albany, John C. Dernbach

John C. Dernbach

No abstract provided.


Pursuing Sustainable Communities: Looking Back, Looking Forward, John C. Dernbach, Scott Bernstein Dec 2002

Pursuing Sustainable Communities: Looking Back, Looking Forward, John C. Dernbach, Scott Bernstein

John C. Dernbach

No abstract provided.


Achieving Sustainable Development: The Centrality And Multiple Facets Of Integrated Decisionmaking, John C. Dernbach Dec 2002

Achieving Sustainable Development: The Centrality And Multiple Facets Of Integrated Decisionmaking, John C. Dernbach

John C. Dernbach

No abstract provided.


Why Lawyers Should Care, John C. Dernbach Jun 2002

Why Lawyers Should Care, John C. Dernbach

John C. Dernbach

No abstract provided.


Learning From The President’S Council On Sustainable Development: The Need For A Real National Strategy, John C. Dernbach Jan 2002

Learning From The President’S Council On Sustainable Development: The Need For A Real National Strategy, John C. Dernbach

John C. Dernbach

This is a review of United States sustainable development efforts at the national level from 1992-2002. At the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in 1992, the United States and other countries agreed to develop and implement a national sustainable development strategy in order to fully integrate environmental matters into national decision making. In this period, the United States did not have such a strategy. Through much of the Clinton Administration, the President's Council on Sustainable Development (PCSD) (1993-1999) provided the basis for such a strategy through a rich variety of policy recommendations, but relatively little effort was made …


Sustainable Versus Unsustainable Propositions, John Dernbach Dec 2001

Sustainable Versus Unsustainable Propositions, John Dernbach

John C. Dernbach

No abstract provided.


Targets, Timetables And Effective Implementing Mechanisms: Necessary Building Blocks For Sustainable Development, John C. Dernbach Dec 2001

Targets, Timetables And Effective Implementing Mechanisms: Necessary Building Blocks For Sustainable Development, John C. Dernbach

John C. Dernbach

No abstract provided.


Sustainable Development: Now More Than Ever, John C. Dernbach Dec 2001

Sustainable Development: Now More Than Ever, John C. Dernbach

John C. Dernbach

This Article explains how and why sustainable development emerged as a conceptual framework, the basic concepts or principles on which this framework is based, why sustainability is primarily a matter for domestic national governance, and why the United States needs to play a leading role in fostering sustainable development. Because "sustainable" modifies "development," it is first important to understand what development means. Since the end of World War II, development has included at least four related elements: peace and security, economic development, social development, and supportive national governance. Each element is reflected in major multilateral treaties that provide a common …


Federal Fossil Fuel Subsidies And Greenhouse Gas Emissions: A Case Study Of Increasing Transparency For Fiscal Policy, John Dernbach, Doug Koplow Dec 2000

Federal Fossil Fuel Subsidies And Greenhouse Gas Emissions: A Case Study Of Increasing Transparency For Fiscal Policy, John Dernbach, Doug Koplow

John C. Dernbach

No abstract provided.


From Rio To Johannesburg: Implementing Sustainable Development At The Global And Local Scale, John Dernbach Dec 2000

From Rio To Johannesburg: Implementing Sustainable Development At The Global And Local Scale, John Dernbach

John C. Dernbach

No abstract provided.


Moving The Climate Change Debate From Models To Proposed Legislation: Lessons From State Experience, John C. Dernbach Jan 2000

Moving The Climate Change Debate From Models To Proposed Legislation: Lessons From State Experience, John C. Dernbach

John C. Dernbach

This Article assesses the relationship between state climate change mitigation measures and potential national climate change legislation. It describes and evaluates eleven different legal and policy tools being employed by states. These are: customer choice of electricity providers, environmental labeling requirements for electricity sources, building codes requiring energy efficiency, demand-side management, system benefit charges, cap-and-trade programs, tax credits, net metering, planning and siting preferences for renewable energy facilities, CO2 limits for new power plants, and renewable energy portfolio standards. Two broad conclusions emerge from this analysis. First, these tools have considerable potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. They achieve reductions …


Incentives To Settle Under Joint And Several Liability: An Empirical Analysis Of Superfund Litigation, Howard F. Chang, Hilary Sigman Jan 2000

Incentives To Settle Under Joint And Several Liability: An Empirical Analysis Of Superfund Litigation, Howard F. Chang, Hilary Sigman

All Faculty Scholarship

Congress may soon restrict joint and several liability for cleanup of contaminated sites under Superfund. We explore whether this change would discourage settlements and is therefore likely to increase the program 's already high litigation costs per site. Recent theoretical research by Kornhauser and Revesz finds that joint and several liability may either encourage or discourage settlement, depending on the correlation of outcomes at trial across defendants. We extend their two-defendant model to a richer framework with N defendants. This extension allows us to test the theoretical model empirically using data on Superfund litigation. We find that joint and several …


Taking The Pennsylvania Constitution Seriously When It Protects The Environment, John C. Dernbach Jan 1999

Taking The Pennsylvania Constitution Seriously When It Protects The Environment, John C. Dernbach

John C. Dernbach

No abstract provided.


Sustainable Development As A Framework For National Governance, John C. Dernbach Jan 1998

Sustainable Development As A Framework For National Governance, John C. Dernbach

John C. Dernbach

No abstract provided.


Reflections On Comparative Law, Environmental Law, And Sustainability, John C. Dernbach Jan 1998

Reflections On Comparative Law, Environmental Law, And Sustainability, John C. Dernbach

John C. Dernbach

No abstract provided.


Coastal Marine Science For Law And Business Students: Preparing Law And Business Professionals To Make "Informed Decisions" About Coastal Issues, David H. Niebuhr, Lynda L. Butler, Don Rahtz, Britt E. Anderson, April N. Lawrence Jan 1998

Coastal Marine Science For Law And Business Students: Preparing Law And Business Professionals To Make "Informed Decisions" About Coastal Issues, David H. Niebuhr, Lynda L. Butler, Don Rahtz, Britt E. Anderson, April N. Lawrence

Faculty Publications

The rigors of employment-directed undergraduate education. and decreased emphasis on "Liberal Arts" studies occurring at some colleges and universities has left many graduates with a level of scientific understanding which is inadequate to make infonned choices about issues which effect the environment. To address this lack of scientific understanding. the Chesapeake Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve (Virginia) and the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, with the Marshall-Wythe School of Law and the School of Business Administration of the College of William and Mary are developing a Coastal Ecosystem Science Program to teach future law and business professionals the basics of …


U.S. Adherence To Its Agenda 21 Commitments: A Five-Year Review, John C. Dernbach Jan 1997

U.S. Adherence To Its Agenda 21 Commitments: A Five-Year Review, John C. Dernbach

John C. Dernbach

No abstract provided.


The Unfocused Regulation Of Toxic And Hazardous Pollutants, John C. Dernbach Jan 1997

The Unfocused Regulation Of Toxic And Hazardous Pollutants, John C. Dernbach

John C. Dernbach

No abstract provided.


Protecting The Environment: Finding The Balance Between Delaney And Free Play, Geoffrey C. Hazard Jr., Howard C. Kunreuther Jan 1997

Protecting The Environment: Finding The Balance Between Delaney And Free Play, Geoffrey C. Hazard Jr., Howard C. Kunreuther

All Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Out Of Focus, John C. Dernbach Nov 1996

Out Of Focus, John C. Dernbach

John C. Dernbach

No abstract provided.


Our Common Future, American Style (Reviewing President’S Council On Sustainable Development, Sustainable America (1996)), John C. Dernbach Apr 1996

Our Common Future, American Style (Reviewing President’S Council On Sustainable Development, Sustainable America (1996)), John C. Dernbach

John C. Dernbach

No abstract provided.


The Hazardous Waste Land, Jerry L. Anderson Nov 1993

The Hazardous Waste Land, Jerry L. Anderson

Jerry L. Anderson

This article was one of the first comprehensive critiques of the Superfund remediation and liability system. The article addresses systemic problems with the CERCLA mechanism that result in inequity and slow the pace of cleanups.


The Other Ninety-Six Percent, John C. Dernbach Dec 1992

The Other Ninety-Six Percent, John C. Dernbach

John C. Dernbach

No abstract provided.


The Global Environment Facility: Financing The Treaty Obligations Of Developing Nations, John C. Dernbach Dec 1992

The Global Environment Facility: Financing The Treaty Obligations Of Developing Nations, John C. Dernbach

John C. Dernbach

No abstract provided.


Industrial Waste: Saving The Worst For Last?, John C. Dernbach Jan 1990

Industrial Waste: Saving The Worst For Last?, John C. Dernbach

John C. Dernbach

This article explains why industrial waste that is not legally hazardous must be given greater attention and regulatory oversight. Industrial waste (including coal ash) may represent as much as 94 percent of municipal, hazardous, and industrial wastes combined. The article explores the existing federal framework for industrial waste and looks at innovative state approaches, particularly the approach taken in Pennsylvania. The article recommends four national goals for addressing industrial waste: energy and materials conservation, environmental protection at waste management facilities, prompt and significant results, and genuine state and federal partnerships. The author suggests changes to the federal Resource Conservation and …


Pennsylvania's Implementation Of The Surface Mining Control And Reclamation Act: An Assessment Of How "Cooperative Federalism" Can Make State Regulatory Programs More Effective, John C. Dernbach Jan 1986

Pennsylvania's Implementation Of The Surface Mining Control And Reclamation Act: An Assessment Of How "Cooperative Federalism" Can Make State Regulatory Programs More Effective, John C. Dernbach

John C. Dernbach

No abstract provided.


Book Review (Reviewing Wesley A. Magat, Reform Of Environmental Regulation (1982)), John C. Dernbach, Thomas Y. Au Jan 1984

Book Review (Reviewing Wesley A. Magat, Reform Of Environmental Regulation (1982)), John C. Dernbach, Thomas Y. Au

John C. Dernbach

No abstract provided.


Book Review (Reviewing Bruce A. Ackerman & William T. Hassler, Clean Coal/Dirty Air (1981)), John C. Dernbach, Thomas Y. Au Dec 1981

Book Review (Reviewing Bruce A. Ackerman & William T. Hassler, Clean Coal/Dirty Air (1981)), John C. Dernbach, Thomas Y. Au

John C. Dernbach

No abstract provided.