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Evaluating Rules And How We Measure Their Effects, Rena I. Steinzor, Michael Patoka
Evaluating Rules And How We Measure Their Effects, Rena I. Steinzor, Michael Patoka
Rena I. Steinzor
The Center for Progressive Reform undertook an empirical study of the Office of Information of Regulatory Affairs, the White House office that reviews every significant regulation issue by Executive Branch agencies. The study assembled an unprecedented portrait of its behavior during the decade from October 16, 2001, when notices of meetings with outside parties were first available on the Internet, until June 1, 2011. OIRA conducted 6,194 separate reviews of regulatory submissions, holding 1,080 meetings that involved 5,759 appearances by outside participants. Both the final report and the database we assembled are available on the CPR website, at progressivereform.org. OIRA …
Judicial Limitation Of The Epa's Oversight Authority In Clean Water Act Permitting Of Mountaintop Mining Valley Fills , Christopher D. Eaton
Judicial Limitation Of The Epa's Oversight Authority In Clean Water Act Permitting Of Mountaintop Mining Valley Fills , Christopher D. Eaton
Michigan Journal of Environmental & Administrative Law
Mountaintop removal mining operations in the Appalachian region have expanded significantly in recent decades. The practice decimates the mountain ecosystems by leveling forests, filling headwater streams, and producing significant runoff of heavy metals, sediment, and other pollutants that impair the aquatic environment of entire watersheds. Yet environmental permitting of the practice is relatively limited. A recent trend in litigation aimed at halting mining operations has involved challenging permits that authorize the discharge of mining overburden into headwater streams pursuant to the Clean Water Act (CWA). The Army Corps of Engineers has assumed jurisdiction over such discharges under section 404 of …
Slides: Hydrofracking: Air Issues And Community Exposure, Debra A. Kaden
Slides: Hydrofracking: Air Issues And Community Exposure, Debra A. Kaden
Air Quality Impacts from Oil and Gas Development (January 27)
Presenter: Debra Kaden, Ph.D., Toxicologist, ENVIRON International Corporation, discusses air concentrations of chemicals of potential health concern surrounding oil and gas development activities, as well as temporal and spatial patterns of these chemicals in the ambient environment. Such information is necessary to evaluate possible health impacts of the drilling process on air in surrounding communities.
19 slides
Slides: Unconventional Gas And Oil – Potential Air Emissions, John Imse
Slides: Unconventional Gas And Oil – Potential Air Emissions, John Imse
Air Quality Impacts from Oil and Gas Development (January 27)
Presenter: John Imse, Hydrogeologist, ENVIRON International Corporation presents an overview of the current methods for developing a shale play and the typical site operations
10 slides
Slides: Air Quality - Oil And Gas Development, Paul R. Tourangeau
Slides: Air Quality - Oil And Gas Development, Paul R. Tourangeau
Air Quality Impacts from Oil and Gas Development (January 27)
Presenter: Paul Tourangeau, Assistant General Counsel, DCP Midstream, LP and former Director, Colorado Air Pollution Control Division, addresses regulatory requirements and policies related to air emissions from the oil and gas sector, including recent and current initiatives at the state and federal level
8 slides
Slides: Drawing The Blueprint For A Sustainable Natural Gas Future, Mark K. Boling
Slides: Drawing The Blueprint For A Sustainable Natural Gas Future, Mark K. Boling
Drawing the Blueprint for a Sustainable Natural Gas Future (January 18)
Presenter: Mark. K. Boling, Executive Vice-President and General Counsel, Southwestern Energy
23 slides
The Judicial Assault On The Clean Water Act, Mark Squillace
The Judicial Assault On The Clean Water Act, Mark Squillace
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American Natures: The Shape Of Conflict In Environmental Law, Jedediah Purdy
American Natures: The Shape Of Conflict In Environmental Law, Jedediah Purdy
Faculty Scholarship
There is a firestorm of political and cultural conflict around environmental issues,including but running well beyond climate change. Legal scholarship is in a bad position to make sense of this conflict because the field has concentrated on making sound policy recommendations to an idealized lawmaker, neglecting the deeply held and sharply clashing values that drive, or block, environmental lawmaking. This Article sets out a framework for understanding and engaging the clash of values in environmental law and, by extension,approaching the field more generally. Americans have held, and legislated based upon, four distinct ideas about why the natural world matters and …
Evaluating Rules And How We Measure Their Effects, Rena I. Steinzor, Michael Patoka
Evaluating Rules And How We Measure Their Effects, Rena I. Steinzor, Michael Patoka
Faculty Scholarship
The Center for Progressive Reform undertook an empirical study of the Office of Information of Regulatory Affairs, the White House office that reviews every significant regulation issue by Executive Branch agencies. The study assembled an unprecedented portrait of its behavior during the decade from October 16, 2001, when notices of meetings with outside parties were first available on the Internet, until June 1, 2011. OIRA conducted 6,194 separate reviews of regulatory submissions, holding 1,080 meetings that involved 5,759 appearances by outside participants. Both the final report and the database we assembled are available on the CPR website, at progressivereform.org.
OIRA …