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The Clean Air Act: How It Can Be Localized To Promote Both Environmental And Social Justice, Tate Kirk
The Clean Air Act: How It Can Be Localized To Promote Both Environmental And Social Justice, Tate Kirk
Seattle Journal of Technology, Environmental & Innovation Law
Legislators attempt to achieve intended goals by enacting laws that provide for regulatory enforcement. However, many times laws are unable to achieve their stated goals and in some ways may create new or exacerbate existing issues. Luckily, upon review, many of these issues can be fixed with quick modifications to either their implementation or enforcement mechanisms. In its current form, the Clean Air Act does not effectively account for differences in regional climate patterns, and, moreover, it perpetuates environmental injustice. If local governments were given more autonomy to enforce the Clean Air Act, they could shape its enforcement to more …
Agriculture, Water Pollution, And The Future Of Epa’S Regulatory Authority In A Post-American Farm Bureau Federation V. U.S. Epa America, Henry Brudney
Seattle Journal of Environmental Law
Until the recent decision of American Farm Bureau Federation v. U.S. EPA, the EPA’s total maximum daily load (TMDL) regulation under the Clean Water Act contained no substantive standard for water quality. However, in this decision, the Third Circuit added such substantive criteria to the TMDL, which should have a monumental effect on the improvement of water quality standards in the United States.
Preserving Rural Gas Stations: State Financial Assistance For Underground Petroleum Storage Tanks, John S. Conniff, Charles G. Gavigan
Preserving Rural Gas Stations: State Financial Assistance For Underground Petroleum Storage Tanks, John S. Conniff, Charles G. Gavigan
Seattle University Law Review
This Article briefly reviews environmental regulations requiring the upgrading of Underground Storage Tankss, analyzes the development and implementation of the new financial assistance program, and considers the constitutionality of the program in light of state ing of credit prohibitions.
Constitutional Preemption Of State Laws Against Massive Oil Spills, Arval A. Morris
Constitutional Preemption Of State Laws Against Massive Oil Spills, Arval A. Morris
Seattle University Law Review
Oil spills, the Supreme Court has declared, are "an insidious form of pollution of vast concern to every coastal city or port and to all the estuaries on which life of the ocean and the lives of the coastal people are greatly dependent." In light of this declaration, the purposes of this article are to assess the validity of the federal court's decision preempting Washington's Tanker Pollution Law, and to comment generally on whether, consistent with the evolved preemption doctrine, coastal states can protect themselves from deleterious oil spills by enacting preventive rather than deterrent measures.