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Controlling Greenhouse Gases From Highway Vehicles, Arnold W. Reitze Jr.
Controlling Greenhouse Gases From Highway Vehicles, Arnold W. Reitze Jr.
Utah Law Faculty Scholarship
This article discusses the program aimed at increasing the efficiency of highway vehicles that is administered by the EPA under the Clean Air Act and by the Department of Transportation.
Capturing Individual Harms, Katrina Fischer Kuh
Capturing Individual Harms, Katrina Fischer Kuh
Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications
The aggregated lifestyles and behaviors of individuals impose significant environmental harms yet remain largely unregulated. A growing literature recognizes the environmental significance of individual behaviors, critiques the failure of environmental law and policy to capture harms traceable to individual behaviors, and suggests and evaluates strategies for capturing individual harms going forward. This Article contributes to the existing literature by approaching the problem of environmentally significant individual harms through the lens of environmental federalism. Using climate change and individual greenhouse gas (“GHG”) emissions as an exemplar, the Article illustrates how local information, local governments, and local implementation can enhance policies designed …