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Venue For Offshore Environmental Crimes: The Seaward Limits Of The Federal Judicial Districts, M. Benjamin Cowan
Venue For Offshore Environmental Crimes: The Seaward Limits Of The Federal Judicial Districts, M. Benjamin Cowan
Vanderbilt Law Review
Consider the following scenario: USA Oil, an American company incorporated in Delaware with its principal place of business in California, has been conducting ongoing oil drilling operations in the Gulf of Mexico. The company operates three oil platforms off the Texas coast. One is located two miles offshore, another six miles offshore, and the third ten miles offshore.
Federal authorities receive notice that on several occasions since the company began operating these rigs, it deliberately allowed large quantities of oil to leak into the Gulf from each of them. The government seeks to indict USA Oil on three counts of …
Environmental Policy And Federal Structure: A Comparison Of The United States And Germany, Susan Rose-Acherman
Environmental Policy And Federal Structure: A Comparison Of The United States And Germany, Susan Rose-Acherman
Vanderbilt Law Review
The assignment of tasks to the appropriate level of government is an important aspect of environmental policy design. Because the costs and benefits of pollution control policies are closely tied to geography, political solutions should reflect the underlying spatial structure of environmental problems. These solutions should not only incorporate the long-distance effects of air and water pollution, but also account for the mobility of economic actors and the resource base of governments.
There are three general types of environmental problems. Global issues have no complex geographical component. Regional problems arise when political boundaries do not coincide with the pollution's geographical …