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City Rivers: The Urban Bankside Restored
City Rivers: The Urban Bankside Restored
Environmental Law Symposia
Conference proceedings from the Law & Policy Symposium held at Golden Gate University School of Law, November 18, 2005.
An Unnatural Disaster: The Aftermath Of Hurricane Katrina, Clifford Rechtschaffen
An Unnatural Disaster: The Aftermath Of Hurricane Katrina, Clifford Rechtschaffen
Publications
This report analyzes key policy decisions, as well as actions and inaction under health, safety, and environmental laws, that could have better protected New Orleans from the effects of Katrina before the hurricane and those that could have improved the emergency response in its wake. In the area of public health, safety, and the environment, the paper explores the implementation of wetlands law and policy, bad decisions regarding the construction and maintenance of the levee system designed to protect New Orleans, pollution prevention and clean-up laws, and energy policy. In the area of emergency response, it reviews policy decisions related …
The Urban Bankside: An Introduction To The Issue, Paul Stanton Kibel
The Urban Bankside: An Introduction To The Issue, Paul Stanton Kibel
Publications
No abstract provided.
Environmental Justice, Clifford Rechtschaffen, Eileen Guana, Catherine A. O'Neill
Environmental Justice, Clifford Rechtschaffen, Eileen Guana, Catherine A. O'Neill
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This white paper describes briefly the remarkable journey of community-based environmental justice advocates over the last 15 years and their impact on environmental regulation. It will also describe some of the empirical evidence of disparities and the regulatory dynamics that make these inequities an intractable problem, despite the collective efforts of grassroots leaders, environmental justice organizations, public interest law firms, and governmental officials. The paper then focuses on one important set of issues that must be tackled in order to achieve environmental justice: those involving injustice in risk regulation.
A Shallow Fix: The Uniform Environmental Covenants Act Leaves Hard Brownfield Questions Unanswered, Paul Stanton Kibel
A Shallow Fix: The Uniform Environmental Covenants Act Leaves Hard Brownfield Questions Unanswered, Paul Stanton Kibel
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The shortcomings of UECA are on the front end, at the point when state and local environmental agencies decide to approve environmental covenants at a particular site.
The Continued Success Of Proposition 65 In Reducing Toxic Exposures, Clifford Rechtschaffen, Patrick Williams
The Continued Success Of Proposition 65 In Reducing Toxic Exposures, Clifford Rechtschaffen, Patrick Williams
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California’s Proposition 65 is by now a well-known regulatory tool for warning consumers about the potentially toxic components of products they consume or to which they are exposed. Rechtschaffen and Williams argue that while Proposition 65 has been subject to some abuses, it has also brought about important reductions in exposures to toxic substances. To make their point, they examine product reformulations caused by enforcement of Proposition 65’s warning requirements over the past five years.
2005 Annual Report - 50 Years Of Progress, Bay Area Air Quality Management District
2005 Annual Report - 50 Years Of Progress, Bay Area Air Quality Management District
California Agencies
No abstract provided.