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Legal Regulation Of The Effects Of Military Activity On The Environment, Daniel M. Bodansky
Legal Regulation Of The Effects Of Military Activity On The Environment, Daniel M. Bodansky
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While in times of peace a growing number of multilateral environmental agreements serves to protect the environment, existing international law affords only very limited protection against the threats of war to the environment. This is the finding of a study by Prof. Daniel Bodansky, University of Georgia, USA on behalf of the German Federal Environmental Agency (Umweltbundesamt) which reviews the adequacy of the law of war and of the general principles of international law to protect the environment. At present international law leaves nation states with a wide degree of discretion to justify environmental harm caused by acts of war.
The Diligent Prosecution Bar To Citizen Suits: The Search For Adequate Representation, Peter A. Appel
The Diligent Prosecution Bar To Citizen Suits: The Search For Adequate Representation, Peter A. Appel
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To ensure that citizen suits assist but do not replace or overshadow government enforcement actions, all environmental statutes which authorize citizen suits bar such suits in certain circumstances. This short Article examines the relatively narrow but important problems created by one such bar, namely the statutory bar on a citizen suit if the federal or state government is “diligently prosecuting” an action against the same violator. The requirement that a governmental prosecution be diligent protects against two types of undesirable situations. On the one hand, the diligent prosecution bar prevents citizens from bringing simple “me too” actions. One would not …