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Attorney Fees As Superfund Response Costs, K.K. Duvivier, Carolyn L. Buchholz Jan 1991

Attorney Fees As Superfund Response Costs, K.K. Duvivier, Carolyn L. Buchholz

Sturm College of Law: Faculty Scholarship

Although other areas of natural resources law have been hit by hard times, the environ- mental area is burgeoning. The intricacies of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Com- pensation and Liability Act (CERCLA or Super- fund), as amended by the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986 (SARA), ensure attorney participation. Further- more, much of the fuel that drives CERCIA lit- igation is the presumption by many clients that their attorney fees are costs that can be re- covered as response costs under section 107 of CERCLA. 42 U.S.C. S 9607 (1983). Such an assumption may be a serious and costly …


The Case For Integrated Pollution Control, Lakshman Guruswamy Jan 1991

The Case For Integrated Pollution Control, Lakshman Guruswamy

Publications

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Energy And The Environment: Confronting Common Threats To Security, Lakshman Guruswamy Jan 1991

Energy And The Environment: Confronting Common Threats To Security, Lakshman Guruswamy

Publications

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The Tragedy Of Distrust In The Implementation Of Federal Environmental Law, Richard J. Lazarus Jan 1991

The Tragedy Of Distrust In The Implementation Of Federal Environmental Law, Richard J. Lazarus

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

The need to reduce dramatically the strain we place on the natural environment is simultaneously immediate and long-term. Our domestic laws reflect that understanding and express a symbolic commitment to that goal. Those laws have achieved, moreover, significant improvement in discrete areas and, in some others, have managed to resist further environmental degradation in the face of a growing economy. For that reason, they warrant great praise. The past twenty years nevertheless reveal that those same laws decline to undertake the concomitant modification of our governmental institutions, and the way we think about them, which is necessary for a fuller …


Environmental Law (Symposium: The Supreme Court And Local Government Law: The 1989-90 Term), Leon D. Lazer Jan 1991

Environmental Law (Symposium: The Supreme Court And Local Government Law: The 1989-90 Term), Leon D. Lazer

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