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Full-Text Articles in Environmental Law
The Aftermath Of Hurricane Katrina, An Unnatural Disaster, Eileen Gauna
The Aftermath Of Hurricane Katrina, An Unnatural Disaster, Eileen Gauna
Faculty Scholarship
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 …
Debacle In Dixie: A Story Of Six Rivers, Three States, Two Compacts And One Well-Paved Path, George William Sherk
Debacle In Dixie: A Story Of Six Rivers, Three States, Two Compacts And One Well-Paved Path, George William Sherk
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Delawate River Basin Compact, Jeffrey Featherstone
Environmental Justice, Eileen Gauna, Catherine A. O'Neill, Clifford Rechtschaffen
Environmental Justice, Eileen Gauna, Catherine A. O'Neill, Clifford Rechtschaffen
Faculty Scholarship
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. We strive in this white paper, as allies in this collective …
Pollution Without Solution: Flow Impairment Problems Under Clean Water Act Section 303, Reed D. Benson
Pollution Without Solution: Flow Impairment Problems Under Clean Water Act Section 303, Reed D. Benson
Faculty Scholarship
"This Article deals with one section of the CWA, section 303, and its implications for flow-impaired streams and related policy issues. While the CWA's main thrust is controlling pollution from "point sources" through a system of permits and technology-based effluent limits, section 303 takes a different approach, focusing on the quality of individual waterbodies and requiring corrective steps for each one that falls below standards. Section 303 addresses not only point source discharges, but other human activities that affect the chemical, physical, and biological integrity of the nation's waters, including pollution from non-point sources, and perhaps even flow impairment. Thus, …
The Supreme Court Of Science Speaks On Water Rights: The National Academy Of Sciences Columbia River Report And Its Water Policy Implications, Reed D. Benson
The Supreme Court Of Science Speaks On Water Rights: The National Academy Of Sciences Columbia River Report And Its Water Policy Implications, Reed D. Benson
Faculty Scholarship
Professor Benson reviews the Report on Columbia River water withdrawals and their effects on salmon recently issued by the National Academy of Sciences to the Washington State Department of Ecology, the agency responsible for managing Washingtons water withdrawals from the Columbia and its tributaries. After reviewing the Report, Professor Benson compares its recommendations with western water law's doctrine of prior appropriation and finds that many of the Report's recommendations are in direct conflict with prior appropriation principles. Finally, Professor Benson discusses the potential impact of the Report on water law in Washington and throughout the West. He concludes that, because …