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Giving Voice To Rachel Carson: Putting Science Into Environmental Law, William H. Rodgers, Jr.
Giving Voice To Rachel Carson: Putting Science Into Environmental Law, William H. Rodgers, Jr.
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Certainly, the most pressing issue of modern times is to develop a body of environmental law (that includes climate change) that is highly responsive to science. Without demeaning the many distinctions between the exercise of science and the practice of law, let me cut to the chase and declare that science is mostly about the “pursuit of truth” and law is mostly about “who wins.” Anybody who doubts this proposition should examine the radical differences between the “Supreme Court of Science” in the United States and the Supreme Court of Law.
The Supreme Court of Science, the National Research Council, …