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A Perfect Storm: Mercury And The Bush Administration, Part Ii, Rena I. Steinzor, Lisa Heinzerling

Faculty Scholarship

The Environmental Protection Agency's recent proposal to regulate mercury emissions from power plants, and its final rule on mercury emissions from chlor-alkali facilities, suffer from serious scientific, legal, economic, and distributional flaws. The first installment in this series examined the strong scientific basis for regulating mercury emissions and critiqued the agency's decisions from a legal perspective. This second (and final) installment finds that EPA's decisions also fail from the perspectives of economics and environmental justice. EPA and the Office of Management and Budget's economic analysis of the proposal to regulate mercury from power plants was shoddy and one-sided. EPA and …

Multiple Hazards And Community Vulnerability In Hillsborough County, Florida, Keith Allen Albury

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Hillsborough County, Florida is subject to a variety of natural and technological hazards, which have the potential to threaten both the population and the built environment. This research focuses on several natural hazards (coastal flooding, sink hole, and hurricane) and technological hazards (toxic transportation spills and toxic release from fixed storage facilities) and the population that is potentially exposed to these hazards. Social vulnerability for this population was determined using racial composition, gender, age and household rental/ownership status.

Both social vulnerability and exposure to hazardous conditions occur as a continuum across geographical space. The determination of who is exposed; the …

Competing Visions Of The Corporation In Catholic Social Thought, Mark A. Sargent

Working Paper Series

Catholic Social Thought (CST) is coherent body of principles concerning the organization of social and economic life drawing on the inspiration of natural law, Thomism, the Gospel and the tradition of Christian personalism. While valuing the creative energy of capitalism and its contributions to the production of wealth, it is often highly critical of the inequalities generated by capitalism, its tendency to promote materialistic consumerism and capital's devaluation of the dignity of work. While not easily characterizable as "right" or "left", CST thinking about corporate social responsibility and corporate governance has become split between interpretations emphasizing the importance of economic …

Fairness Principles In Allocating Water: Integrating Views Of Different Agents, B. E. Nancarrow, G. J. Syme

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

The allocation, or re-allocation, of water to achieve environmental sustainability in farming communities canbe a source of considerable conflict. “What’s fair” when sharing water between different agents and theenvironment becomes paramount in people’s decision making. Issues such as self interest; efficient uses ofwater; business investments; viable communities and prior rights to water all play a part in the ways peopleview the fairness of the allocation decision. The different agents will form their fairness rules in differentways. For example, the small family farmer will not want to be disadvantaged by the greater economiccapacity of the corporate farmer. Those who have not …

Environmental Accountability And Public Involvement, Leroy C. Paddock

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Contract And Grant Awards Fiscal Year 2004, Office Of The Vice President For Research

Office of the Vice President for Research

I invite you to read this report Contract & Grant Awards, fiscal year 2004, which lists contract and grant (C&G) awards received by the University of New Mexico (UNM) during the period from July 1, 2003 - June 30, 2004 (FY04). These awards represent new funds that were acquired during FY04 by the main campus, branch campuses and education centers, and the Health Sciences Center (HSC). The HSC includes the School of Medicine, College of Nursing and College of Pharmacy. The awards received for FY04 total $278.4M, of which $171.7M is attributed to the main campus and $106.7M to HSC. …

Mpoac Institute Development Plan - Final Report For Phase I: Feasibility And Needs Study, Jeff Kramer, Hal Beardall

CUTR Research Reports

No abstract provided.

Hastings Community (Summer 2004), Hastings College Of The Law Alumni Association

Hastings Alumni Publications

No abstract provided.

Fordham Lawyer, Vol. 7 No. 1 - Summer 2004, Fordham Law School

Fordham Lawyer

Fordham Lawyer magazine was first published in 1988 and continued through 2004. It returned in 2011 under Dean Michael M. Martin. The magazine shines a spotlight on faculty research, the Law School community, and the accomplishments of our alumni. No issues were published between 2004 and 2011.

Mining In Irian Jaya: How Citizens Should Think About Environmental Justice, Jeremy Bendik-Keymer

Faculty Scholarship

"All around me are the facts of my life. But I can't see them, because the way I think gets in the way." I am making a case for environmental justice. We'll explore how questioning our lives and actions helps us grasp environmental justice. I believe environmental justice calls many of us to conceive of our lives in new ways so that we can become true ecological citizens. First, relations between humans and lands need to be articulated, and we need to think of our lives in spatially, temporally and ecologically extended ways. This paper is intended initially as an …

2004-06-00 Newsletter, Morehead State University. Board Of Regents.

Morehead State Board of Regents Agenda Books and Meeting Minutes

No abstract provided.

Russian Floating Nuclear Reactors: Lacunae In Current International Environmental And Maritime Law And The Need For Proactive International Cooperation In The Development Of Sustainable Energy Sources, Douglas John Steding

Washington International Law Journal

During the second half of 2003, Russia announced plans to build barges carrying two nuclear reactors capable of supplying electricity to a town of fifty thousand people. Rapidly developing countries seem particularly interested in this proposal, as these reactors can meet their growing power needs. In addition, these floating nuclear reactors provide an alternative to coal, oil and natural gas, all sources of energy that contribute to global warming. These reactors, however, pose a substantial risk to the environment, particularly in light of Russia's lax environmental policies, and the design of the barges themselves make them susceptible to a wide …

Environmental Accountability And Public Involvement, Leroy Paddock

Pace Environmental Law Review

This article discusses the need for increased public participation in increasing organizations' environmental accountability.

Managing For Results To Enhance Government Accountability And Achieve Environmental Justice, Ann E. Goode, Suellen Keiner

Pace Environmental Law Review

The authors explain how government accountability studies conducted by the National Academy of Public Administration may address environmental justice and enhance environmental protection for all United States citizens, regardless of race or income.

Incineration And Environmental Justice : The Case Of Communities Around Connecticut Resource Recovery Facilities, Michael A. Bilheimer

Theses

The current depleting landfill capacity in Connecticut means that resource recovery facilities will be relied on heavily to meet the States' waste disposal needs. This heavy reliance on these facilities will place greater burdens on the host communities of these waste facilities. Therefore it is important to examine the citing of these facilities to determine if these sitings unfairly targeted a particular segment of the population.

To determine if siting has been unjust in Connecticut, this study uses a geographic information system (GIS) to analyze demographic data surrounding each facility in a comparison of demographic data from 1990 and 2000 …

May 22, 2004 (Pages 2677-2790), Pennsylvania Legislative Reference Bureau

Volume 34 (2004)

No abstract provided.

The Impacts Of Exclusionary Zoning Practices And Gentrification On Low-Income And Minority Populations In America's Inner Cities, Tanjanesia Jackson

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

This thesis will examine the effects of residential segregation, exclusionary zoning, and gentrification on low-income minorities in inner cities. The research will show the relationship between housing inequalities and institutional classism and racism. In addition, the research will examine the use of public policies and regulations that maintain the existing isolation and concentration of minorities and low-income families through disinvestment.

Campus Chronicle (Vol. 6, No. 34), Valparaiso University

Campus Chronicle

No abstract provided.

Mustang Daily, May 5, 2004

Cal Poly Student Newspaper

Student newspaper of California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA.

What's A Judge To Do? Remedying The Remedy In Institutional Reform Litigation, A Review Of Democracy By Decree: What Happens When Courts Run Government By Ross Sandler And David Schoenbrod; Yale University Press (2003), Susan Poser

Nebraska College of Law: Faculty Publications

A review of Democracy by Decree: What Happens When Courts Run Government by Ross Sandler and David Schoenbrod; Yale University Press (2003), in which it is questioned whether judges have the legitimacy and the capacity to oversee the remedial phase of institutional reform litigation.

Commencement Convocation Program, Tampa Campus, May 1, 2004, University Of South Florida

USF Graduation and Convocation Programs

King O'Neal Scholars - Cindy Bethel, Christopher Hagemo, Olumide Olulade, Ralph Skibinski, Brad Decker, Oluwaseun Akinbo, Stephanie Alford, Ricardo Berrios, Susan Kremmel, Erin Laureano, Roxanna Paulin, Patricia Summers, and Steffanie Wilson; Honorary Doctorate of Visual and Performing Arts - Dick Hyman; Honorary Doctorate of Engineering and Military Science - General Tommy Franks; President's Fellow Medallion - Lee Bird Leavengood; President's Fellow Medallion - Victor Leavengood; Outstanding Senior - Julia Lucille Licorish

Environmental Justice: An Analysis Of Effective Public Involvement Methods And Strategies For Transportation Decisions In The Houston Area., Jermaine R. Hannon

Theses (Pre-2016)

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What's A Judge To Do? Remedying The Remedy In Institutional Reform Litigation, Susan Poser

Michigan Law Review

Democracy by Decree is the latest contribution to a scholarly literature, now nearly thirty-years old, which questions whether judges have the legitimacy and the capacity to oversee the remedial phase of institutional reform litigation. Previous contributors to this literature have come out on one side or the other of the legitimacy and capacity debate. Abram Chayes, Owen Fiss, and more recently, Malcolm Feeley and Edward Rubin, have all argued that the proper role of judges is to remedy rights violations and that judges possess the legitimate institutional authority to order structural injunctions. Lon Fuller, Donald Horowitz, William Fletcher, and Gerald …

The Skull Valley Goshute And Nuclear Waste: Rhetorical Analysis Of Claims-Making Of Opponents And Proponents, Jesse T. Weiss

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

One of the greatest challenges to modem society is the management and disposal of hazardous by-products that have accompanied the industrial advances of the twentieth century. One of the most difficult by-products to deal with has been radioactive waste. Previous research has shown that due to the real and perceived risks associated with this type of waste, the burden of storing said waste has fallen on minority communities, including Native American groups. This research examines the proposed temporary nuclear waste storage facility to be located on the Skull Valley Indian Reservation in Utah. Using an ethnographic case study approach, this …

Independent- Apr. 27, 2004, Andrea Zelinski

The Independent (1988-present)

No abstract provided.

Faculty Newsnotes 2004 No. 368, Office Of The Provost

Faculty Newsnotes (1972-2010)

No abstract provided.

The Weekly Challenger, April 22, 2004, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al

Weekly Challenger Newspaper Collection

The April 22, 2004, issue of The Weekly Challenger.

Murray Ledger And Times, April 13, 2004, Murray Ledger And Times

The Murray Ledger & Times

No abstract provided.

Illinois State University Report, April 8, 2004, Illinois State University

Illinois State University Report (1966-2012)

Illinois State University bi-weekly employee newsletter.

Meeting Notes 2004-04-08 , Joint Policy Advisory Committee On Transportation

Joint Policy Advisory Committee on Transportation

No abstract provided.