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Vw And Gm Scandals Show Why Regulation Matters, Robert R.M. Verchick, Rena Steinzor
Vw And Gm Scandals Show Why Regulation Matters, Robert R.M. Verchick, Rena Steinzor
Robert R.M. Verchick
Conservatives love to belittle federal regulations — especially the ones designed to keep our air clean, our water drinkable, our workplaces safe, and our financial markets stable. Conservatives, of course, don’t oppose any of those things. They just think unregulated markets, left on their own, will keep bad things from happening. Customers will see when a dishonest company is putting Americans at risk; and when they do, they will unleash their fury and incinerate it. Unbridled capitalism is the world’s largest self-cleaning oven. Last week’s news from the automotive industry should lay that argument to rest.
Katrina's Lessons: Learned And Unlearned, Robert R.M. Verchick
Katrina's Lessons: Learned And Unlearned, Robert R.M. Verchick
Robert R.M. Verchick
In the last few years, I’ve commemorated the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina in a new way: by pedaling along the self-guided “Levee Disaster Bike Tour.” I begin beneath muscular oaks along New Orleans’ Bayou St. John, and I weave my way around potholes and waterfowl to pay silent respects near three prominent levee-breach sites, each marked with a commemorative plaque. Ten years ago, those breaches, combined with more than 50 others to bring a great American city to its knees. I lived in New Orleans then, and evacuated to Houston for six months. Like so many others I resolved to …
Sb 469 Shouldn't Be Rushed, Robert R.M. Verchick, Christine Klein
Sb 469 Shouldn't Be Rushed, Robert R.M. Verchick, Christine Klein
Robert R.M. Verchick
No abstract provided.
Gov. Jindal, Don't Sign Away Our Legal Claims Against Bp, Robert R.M. Verchick
Gov. Jindal, Don't Sign Away Our Legal Claims Against Bp, Robert R.M. Verchick
Robert R.M. Verchick
No abstract provided.
Coping With Climate: Legal Innovation In The Absence Of Full Reform, Robert R.M. Verchick, Faye Sheets
Coping With Climate: Legal Innovation In The Absence Of Full Reform, Robert R.M. Verchick, Faye Sheets
Robert R.M. Verchick
In the absence of a federal legislation directing government to adapt to the unavoidable effects of climate change, the Obama administration has put its faith in existing environmental laws like the Clean Air Act (“CAA”), the Endangered Species Act (“ESA”), and the National Environmental Policy Act (“NEPA”). But often federal objectives focus only on reducing greenhouse gases—what experts call “mitigation”—and neglect strategies for coping with the climate disruptions that we cannot avoid—otherwise known as “adaptation.” Where the federal policy falls short, states are beginning to experiment on their own with climate adaptation strategies. This essay examines both approaches, mitigation and …
Letting Nature Work In The Pacific Northwest: A Manual For Protecting Ecosystem Services Under Existing Law, Robert Adler, Robert Glicksman, Yee Huang, Daniel Rohlf, Robert R.M. Verchick
Letting Nature Work In The Pacific Northwest: A Manual For Protecting Ecosystem Services Under Existing Law, Robert Adler, Robert Glicksman, Yee Huang, Daniel Rohlf, Robert R.M. Verchick
Robert R.M. Verchick
In the decades since Congress and state legislatures passed most of the nation's most significant environmental laws, our knowledge about ecosystems has increased dramatically. We know much more about the “goods and services” that ecosystems provide—more, for example, about the migratory species that sustain agriculture by functioning as pollinators, and more about how healthy ecosystems help to filter and clean our water. But our policymakers haven’t yet taken advantage of much of that new knowledge. As ecologists learn more about the complex and dynamic interactions that produce these valuable services, decisionmakers and advocates should adopt an ecosystem services approach to …
In Making Disaster Plans, We Have To Imagine The Worst Case, Robert R.M. Verchick
In Making Disaster Plans, We Have To Imagine The Worst Case, Robert R.M. Verchick
Robert R.M. Verchick
No abstract provided.
Recovery In Japan: Will It Be Heavy-Handed Or Hands-Off?, Robert R.M. Verchick
Recovery In Japan: Will It Be Heavy-Handed Or Hands-Off?, Robert R.M. Verchick
Robert R.M. Verchick
No abstract provided.
Climate Change And The Puget Sound: Building The Legal Framework For Adaptation, Robert Glicksman, Catherine O'Neill, Yee Huang, William Andreen, Robin Kundis Craig, Victor Flatt, William Funk, Dale Goble, Alice Kaswan, Robert R.M. Verchick
Climate Change And The Puget Sound: Building The Legal Framework For Adaptation, Robert Glicksman, Catherine O'Neill, Yee Huang, William Andreen, Robin Kundis Craig, Victor Flatt, William Funk, Dale Goble, Alice Kaswan, Robert R.M. Verchick
Robert R.M. Verchick
No abstract provided.
Adaptation, Economics, And Justice, Robert R.M. Verchick
Adaptation, Economics, And Justice, Robert R.M. Verchick
Robert R.M. Verchick
No abstract provided.
Protecting Public Health And The Environment By The Stroke Of A Presidential Pen: Seven Executive Orders For The President’S First 100 Days, Rebecca Bratspies, David Driesen, Robert Fischman, Sheila Foster, Eileen Gauna, Robert Glicksman, Alexandra Klass, Catherine O'Neill, Sidney Shapiro, Amy Sinden, Rena Steinzer, Robert R.M. Verchick, Wendy Wagner, James Goodwin
Protecting Public Health And The Environment By The Stroke Of A Presidential Pen: Seven Executive Orders For The President’S First 100 Days, Rebecca Bratspies, David Driesen, Robert Fischman, Sheila Foster, Eileen Gauna, Robert Glicksman, Alexandra Klass, Catherine O'Neill, Sidney Shapiro, Amy Sinden, Rena Steinzer, Robert R.M. Verchick, Wendy Wagner, James Goodwin
Robert R.M. Verchick
No abstract provided.
Afterword: The Economics Of Infrastructure, Robert R.M. Verchick
Afterword: The Economics Of Infrastructure, Robert R.M. Verchick
Robert R.M. Verchick
No abstract provided.
A Federal Obligation, Robert R.M. Verchick
An Unnatural Disaster: The Aftermath Of Hurricane Katrina, David Driesen, Alyson Flournoy, Sheila Foster, Eileen Gauna, Robert Glicksman, Carmen Gonzalez, David Gottlieb, Donald Hornstein, Douglas Kysar, Thomas Mcgarity, Catherine O'Neill, Clifford Rechtschaffen, Sidney Shapiro, Christopher Schroeder, Rena Steinzor, Joseph Tomain, Robert R.M. Verchick, Karen Sokol
An Unnatural Disaster: The Aftermath Of Hurricane Katrina, David Driesen, Alyson Flournoy, Sheila Foster, Eileen Gauna, Robert Glicksman, Carmen Gonzalez, David Gottlieb, Donald Hornstein, Douglas Kysar, Thomas Mcgarity, Catherine O'Neill, Clifford Rechtschaffen, Sidney Shapiro, Christopher Schroeder, Rena Steinzor, Joseph Tomain, Robert R.M. Verchick, Karen Sokol
Robert R.M. Verchick
No abstract provided.
Toward Normative Rules For Agency Interpretation: Defining Jurisdiction Under The Clean Water Act, Robert R.M. Verchick
Toward Normative Rules For Agency Interpretation: Defining Jurisdiction Under The Clean Water Act, Robert R.M. Verchick
Robert R.M. Verchick
Wetlands advocates, from environmentalists to duck hunters, dodged a bullet last year when the Bush Administration dropped plans to narrow its jurisdiction over streams and wetlands. The decision marked a key chapter in a story that began in 2001, when the Supreme Court invalidated part of the Migratory Bird Rule, a regulation that for many years had supported federal protection over some intrastate wetlands. The Court's broad rejection of this narrow rule sent federal jurisdiction under the Clean Water Act into a tailspin. The decision opened debates about tributaries and intermittent streams in the Southwest. It also appeared to narrow …
Beyond The “Courts Of The Conqueror”: Balancing Private And Cultural Property Rights Under Hawaiian Law, M. Casey Jarman, Robert R.M. Verchick
Beyond The “Courts Of The Conqueror”: Balancing Private And Cultural Property Rights Under Hawaiian Law, M. Casey Jarman, Robert R.M. Verchick
Robert R.M. Verchick
No abstract provided.
A Survey Of Federal Agency Response To President Clinton's Executive Order No. 12898 On Environmental Justice, Robert R.M. Verchick, Denis Binder, Colin Crawford, Eileen Gauna, M. Casey Jarman, Alice Kaswan, Bradford Mank, Catherine O'Neill, Cliff Rechtschaffen
A Survey Of Federal Agency Response To President Clinton's Executive Order No. 12898 On Environmental Justice, Robert R.M. Verchick, Denis Binder, Colin Crawford, Eileen Gauna, M. Casey Jarman, Alice Kaswan, Bradford Mank, Catherine O'Neill, Cliff Rechtschaffen
Robert R.M. Verchick
No abstract provided.
Free Speech, Toxic Tort, And The Battle Of Sugar Creek, Robert R.M. Verchick
Free Speech, Toxic Tort, And The Battle Of Sugar Creek, Robert R.M. Verchick
Robert R.M. Verchick
No abstract provided.
“A Civil Action” Shows How Community Is Often Forgotten, Robert R.M. Verchick
“A Civil Action” Shows How Community Is Often Forgotten, Robert R.M. Verchick
Robert R.M. Verchick
No abstract provided.
Dust Bowl Blues: Saving And Sharing The Ogallala Aquifer, Robert R.M. Verchick
Dust Bowl Blues: Saving And Sharing The Ogallala Aquifer, Robert R.M. Verchick
Robert R.M. Verchick
No abstract provided.
Critical Space Theory: Keeping Local Geography In American And European Environmental Law, Robert R.M. Verchick
Critical Space Theory: Keeping Local Geography In American And European Environmental Law, Robert R.M. Verchick
Robert R.M. Verchick
Recently, legal scholars have begun to explore the meaning and significance of geographic space in law within the United States and internationally, a project highlighted in a 1996 Stanford Law Review symposium. Much of this discussion draws implicitly and explicitly on critical legal theory in approaching geographic themes -- suggesting the beginning of what the author calls "Critical Space Theory." This article uses Critical Space Theory to address the legal significance of geography in relation to two environmental issues in the United States and the European Union: (1) transborder waste transportation and (2) judicial standing. Each issue raises questions of …
The Commerce Clause, Environmental Justice, And The Interstate Garbage Wars, Robert R.M. Verchick
The Commerce Clause, Environmental Justice, And The Interstate Garbage Wars, Robert R.M. Verchick
Robert R.M. Verchick
This Article critically examines the Court's garbage cases in conjunction with traditional principles of Commerce Clause jurisprudence for the purpose of constructing a doctrine that is at once constitutionally and ecologically sound. The Article is divided into five parts. Part I briefly describes the current state of the garbage wars, both in terms of environmental effects and in terms of constitutional developments. Parts II and III critically examine the Court's garbage cases from the perspectives of two traditional justifications for the negative Commerce Clause: encouraging fair representation of residents across state lines and discouraging economic protectionism. Here I conclude that …
In A Greener Voice: Feminist Theory And Environmental Justice, Robert R.M. Verchick
In A Greener Voice: Feminist Theory And Environmental Justice, Robert R.M. Verchick
Robert R.M. Verchick
This Article explores the way in which women activists--and the feminist strategies they contribute--help shape the meaning and pursuit of environmental justice. [FN8] It shows how methods associated with feminism have contributed to the movement's premier concerns for family safety and social equality and have prompted creative ways to identify and attack a broad range of environmental threats. The Article is divided into four parts. Part I briefly surveys the participation of women in the environmental justice movement and examines the reasons why so many women become involved in grassroots environmental struggles. Part II shows how the strategies and goals …