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Trail Smelter Déjà Vu: Extraterritoriality, International Environmental Law And The Search For Solutions To Canadian-U.S. Transboundary Water Pollution Disputes, Austen L. Parrish
Trail Smelter Déjà Vu: Extraterritoriality, International Environmental Law And The Search For Solutions To Canadian-U.S. Transboundary Water Pollution Disputes, Austen L. Parrish
Articles by Maurer Faculty
In the 1930s, a privately owned smelting plant in Trail, Canada was the focus of the most famous case in international environmental law: the Trail Smelter Arbitration. But the subject of that landmark case has not gone away. Over the last seventy years, the Trail smelter dumped millions of tons of mercury, arsenic, and toxic waste into the Columbia River. The dumping's effects have been felt in neighboring Washington State, where the toxic discharges have caused environmental harm. In 2003, the EPA began investigating the Washington border area for designation as a Superfund (CERCLA) site, and controversially demanded that the …
Thresholds Of Private Cercla Liability: Redefining "Necessary" Under Section 107(A)(4)(B), Jennifer I. Fox
Thresholds Of Private Cercla Liability: Redefining "Necessary" Under Section 107(A)(4)(B), Jennifer I. Fox
Indiana Law Journal
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Rethinking Risk-Based Environmental Cleanup, Alex Geisinger
Rethinking Risk-Based Environmental Cleanup, Alex Geisinger
Indiana Law Journal
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Short Changing Short-Term Risk: A Study Of Superfund Remedy Selection, John S. Applegate, Steven M. Wesloh
Short Changing Short-Term Risk: A Study Of Superfund Remedy Selection, John S. Applegate, Steven M. Wesloh
Articles by Maurer Faculty
Unlike most environmental statutes, CERCLA requires a lengthy period of labor-intensive activity to achieve its clean-up goals. This aspect of the Superfund program does not receive sufficient attention in policy and legal analyses of CERCLA, nor during site-specific remedy selection decision-making. The risks of the remediation period-to workers, to site neighbors, and to the natural environment-are substantial, as this Article illustrates. However, the confusing and sometimes dismissive treatment of remediation risk in the EPA 's detailed guidance for Superfund decision-makers invites the neglect of the short-term effectiveness criterion in the remedy selection process. A study of remedy selection documents in …
Risk Assessment, Redevelopment, And Environmental Justice: Evaluating The Brownfields Bargain, John S. Applegate
Risk Assessment, Redevelopment, And Environmental Justice: Evaluating The Brownfields Bargain, John S. Applegate
Articles by Maurer Faculty
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How To Save The National Priorities List From The D.C. Circuit -- And Itself, John S. Applegate
How To Save The National Priorities List From The D.C. Circuit -- And Itself, John S. Applegate
Articles by Maurer Faculty
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Toxic Victim Compensation, A. James Barnes
Toxic Victim Compensation, A. James Barnes
Articles by Maurer Faculty
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