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Listing And Delisting Processes Under The Endangered Species Act: Hearing Before The S. Subcomm. On Fisheries, Wildlife And Water, 107th Cong., May 9, 2001 (Statement Of John D. Echeverria, Dir. Environmental Policy Project, Geo. U. L. Center), John D. Echeverria
Testimony Before Congress
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The Clean Air Act And The Constitution, Lisa Heinzerling
The Clean Air Act And The Constitution, Lisa Heinzerling
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
In the summer of 1997, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) strengthened the air quality standards for two air pollutants, particulate matter and ozone, based on mounting scientific evidence of the harmfulness of these pollutants at levels allowed by the existing standards. With respect to particulate matter (PM), the agency found that numerous epidemiological studies had established an association between PM levels and premature deaths in humans, especially in the elderly population. Indeed, one study on which the EPA relied had found that approximately 60,000 premature deaths in the United States alone could be attributed, annually, to particulate matter. The scientific …
Highways And Bi-Ways For Environmental Justice, Richard J. Lazarus
Highways And Bi-Ways For Environmental Justice, Richard J. Lazarus
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
The purpose of this essay is to discuss the past, present, and future of the environmental justice movement as illustrated by the highway between Selma and Montgomery in Alabama and the highway system surrounding the City of Atlanta in neighboring Georgia. The essay is divided into three parts. The first part describes environmental justice, seeking both to place it in a broader historical perspective and to discuss how it relates to civil rights law and environmental law. The second part undertakes a closer examination of the challenges presented by efforts to fashion positive law to address environmental justice norms. This …
The Greening Of America And The Graying Of United States Environmental Law: Reflections On Environmental Law’S First Three Decades In The United States, Richard J. Lazarus
The Greening Of America And The Graying Of United States Environmental Law: Reflections On Environmental Law’S First Three Decades In The United States, Richard J. Lazarus
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
The purpose of this article is to begin to place the developments of the past few decades in historical perspective. To that end, the article is divided into three parts, roughly corresponding to the final three decades of the past century. The first part of the article describes the origins of U.S. environmental law, focusing primarily on its first decade from 1970 through 1980. The second part examines how U.S. environmental laws have since evolved, focusing primarily on their second decade (the 1980s), which was a period of tremendous expansion for environmental law. Finally, the third part considers future trends …
Tortious Toxics, Lisa Heinzerling, Cameron Powers Hoffman
Tortious Toxics, Lisa Heinzerling, Cameron Powers Hoffman
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
In this Article we offer one small idea with potentially large implications. We propose the recognition arid development of a special tort for toxic exposures, where the exposures have not yet led to a physical illness such as cancer. We argue, in brief, that this new tort would, in one simple step, accomplish three things: it would address many of the problems with the courts' current handling of toxic torts; it would consolidate the many overlapping causes of action now pressed in toxic tort cases into one single claim; and it would give expression to the real injury motivating these …