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Standing In Environmental Citizen Suits: Laidlaw’S Clarification Of The Injury-In-Fact And Redressability Requirements, Michael P. Healy Jun 2000

Standing In Environmental Citizen Suits: Laidlaw’S Clarification Of The Injury-In-Fact And Redressability Requirements, Michael P. Healy

Law Faculty Scholarly Articles

In its first week of business during the new millennium, the U.S. Supreme Court decided Friends of the Earth, Inc. v. Laidlaw Environmental Services (TOC), Inc., and provided important clarifications about the law of standing in environmental citizen suits. Specifically, the Court rejected the narrow view of environmental injury-in-fact advocated by Justice Scalia and instead adhered to the broader view of injury-in-fact established in a nonenvironmental context by the Court's decision in Federal Elections Commission v. Akins. As importantly, the Court also addressed the redressability requirement of Article III standing in Laidlaw. Here too, the Court did …


16th Annual Environmental Law Institute, Office Of Continuing Legal Education At The University Of Kentucky College Of Law, Christopher R. Fitzpatrick, Carl W. Breeding, Timothy J. Hagerty, Marc S. Murphy, Wanda Ballard Repasky, Clinton J. Elliott, Thomas W. Fitzgerald, Dennis J. Conniff, Laura D. Keller, W. Blaine Early, Eric A. Braun, Michael P. Healy, Glenna Jo Curry, James L. Dickinson, W. Patrick Stallard, Richard H. Underwood May 2000

16th Annual Environmental Law Institute, Office Of Continuing Legal Education At The University Of Kentucky College Of Law, Christopher R. Fitzpatrick, Carl W. Breeding, Timothy J. Hagerty, Marc S. Murphy, Wanda Ballard Repasky, Clinton J. Elliott, Thomas W. Fitzgerald, Dennis J. Conniff, Laura D. Keller, W. Blaine Early, Eric A. Braun, Michael P. Healy, Glenna Jo Curry, James L. Dickinson, W. Patrick Stallard, Richard H. Underwood

Continuing Legal Education Materials

Materials from the 16th Annual Environmental Law Institute held by UK/CLE in May 2000.


Overview Of Environmental Regulations That Affect Coal Combustion, Cortland F. Eble Jan 2000

Overview Of Environmental Regulations That Affect Coal Combustion, Cortland F. Eble

Information Circular--KGS

Environmental regulations have had, and continue to have, an effect on the combustion of coal. These regulations largely affect the electric utility industry, the largest consumer of domestic coal, but they ultimately affect everyone, because we all use electricity, and the cost of compliance is usually passed on to the consumer, resulting in higher electric bills.