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Book Review: The Rule Of Five, Ashlee Carrasco
Book Review: The Rule Of Five, Ashlee Carrasco
Natural Resources Journal
The Rule of Five reads like a novel that ought to be adapted for the big screen, despite its accurate overview of the landmark Supreme Court case, Massachusetts v. EPA. Richard J. Lazarus does an excellent job of honoring the legacy of those who fought long and hard to bring the issue of climate change to the Supreme Court for the first time. While the decision in Massachusetts v. EPA was a landmark decision handed down by the Supreme Court of the United States, the potential to bore the reader with procedural history and legal jargon was ever-present. However, Lazarus …
Exploring The History Of Charging And Sentencing Patterns In U.S. Clean Air Act Criminal Prosecutions, Joshua Ozymy, Melissa Jarrell Ozymy
Exploring The History Of Charging And Sentencing Patterns In U.S. Clean Air Act Criminal Prosecutions, Joshua Ozymy, Melissa Jarrell Ozymy
Natural Resources Journal
The institutionalization of criminal investigation and prosecution of companies and individuals that violate federal clean air laws has been ongoing for almost four decades. Yet our empirical understanding of how defendants are criminally prosecuted and sanctioned under the U.S. Clean Air Act is mostly unknown. Our goal is to analyze historical charging and sentencing patterns in Clean Air Act criminal prosecutions and show the broader themes that emerge over time. Through content analysis of all 2,588 criminal prosecutions resulting from U.S. EPA criminal investigations, 1983-2019, we select all 377 prosecutions focusing on Clean Air Act violations. Findings suggest that prosecutions …