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It's Been 4380 Days And Counting Since Exxon Valdez: Is It Time To Change The Oil Pollution Act Of 1990, Browne C. Lewis
It's Been 4380 Days And Counting Since Exxon Valdez: Is It Time To Change The Oil Pollution Act Of 1990, Browne C. Lewis
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The first Part of this Article examines the liability scheme that existed prior to the EXXON VALDEZ oil spill. In the second Part, the Article analyzes the liability scheme that was created by the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (OPA). The final Part of the Article evaluates whether the OPA's liability scheme would be able to effectively deal with an oil spill of the magnitude of the EXXON VALDEZ oil spill.
Legislative Innovation In State Brownfields Redevelopment Programs, Heidi Gorovitz Robertson
Legislative Innovation In State Brownfields Redevelopment Programs, Heidi Gorovitz Robertson
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States throughout the country have created legislation and administrative programs to encourage the cleanup and redevelopment of urban brownfield land. In part, these efforts respond to the federal government's recent focus on the issue. However, leadership in method and approach has come, not from the federal government, but from the states. States have approached the cleanup and redevelopment of contaminated land in a variety of ways, some choosing to create voluntary cleanup programs, others imposing mandatory cleanup programs, and still others using combinations of these approaches. Regardless of method, however, the push to clean brownfield land is grounded in a …