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Regional Air Quality Concerns In The West: Acid Deposition And Ozone, Kathy A. Tonnessen

Air Quality Protection in the West (November 27-28)

22 pages.

Contains 3 pages of references.

Asbestos In Schools: The Asbestos Hazard Emergency Response Act And School Asbestos Litigation, James C. Stanley

Vanderbilt Law Review

Over a decade has passed since the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) first identified asbestos as a health threat to the nation's school children in 1978. The concern over asbestos in schools prompted numerous responses to this problem, including legislative solutions, litigation, and the birth of a new industry to inspect, control, and abate the hazard. The results have been mixed at best. School officials, legislators, and legal commentators have criticized much of the legislation as ineffective; the litigation has added cases to a legal docket already overburdened by personal injury suits brought by individuals against asbestos manufacturers and liability insurance …

The Protection Of Groundwater And Public Drinking Supplies: Recent Trends In Litigation And Legislation, Pamela King

Vanderbilt Law Review

Although groundwater is one of our most vital natural resources, it is perhaps the least protected. Over half of the total United States population-nearly 117 million people-depends on groundwater reservoirs, or aquifers, as its source of drinking water. Industry looks to groundwater for twenty-six percent of its water needs, and two-thirds of all groundwater is used in agriculture. In addition, groundwater reenters oceans, lakes, and rivers to supply nearly one-third of the flow of surface water in the United States.

Presently, underground water sources are contaminated in all fifty states. This pollution is the by-product of a vast array of …

The Last Shall Be First, And The First Last: Ruminations On The Past, Present And Future Course Of Government Regulation Of Hazardous Pollutants, Kevin J. Worthen

BYU Law Review

No abstract provided.

United States Hazardous Waste Law And Policy, A. Dan Tarlock

New Challenges for Environmental Protection: Second Sino-American Conference on Environmental Law (October 12-13)

3 pages.

The National Environmental Policy Act: No Longer A Teenager, But Not Yet Grown-Up, George W. (Rock) Pring

New Challenges for Environmental Protection: Second Sino-American Conference on Environmental Law (October 12-13)

98 pages.

Contains footnotes.

Existing Legal Treatment Of Developing Countries: Differential, Contextual, And Absolute Norms, Daniel Barstow Magraw

New Challenges for Environmental Protection: Second Sino-American Conference on Environmental Law (October 12-13)

53 pages.

Contains 11 pages of endnotes.

Agenda: New Challenges For Environmental Protection: Second Sino-American Conference On Environmental Law, University Of Colorado Boulder. Natural Resources Law Center

New Challenges for Environmental Protection: Second Sino-American Conference on Environmental Law (October 12-13)

Workshop held Sept. 18-19, 1989; conference held Oct. 12-13, 1989, in Boulder, Colorado.

Conference speakers included University of Colorado School of Law professors Daniel Barstow Magraw and Lawrence J. MacDonnell.

Contents of papers from workshop and conference:

To protect developing city by the enactment of local laws and regulations / Wu Zilin -- Legislative control of air pollution & water pollution of the P.R.China / Xiao Longan -- The law of natural conservation in China / Ma Xiang-cong -- 'Weighing environmental risks : EPA's unfinished business', Environment, vol. 30, no. 6, July/August 1988, p. 14-17, 34-39 / Richard Morgenstern, Stuart …

The United States Experience With Air Pollution Control, A. Dan Tarlock

New Challenges for Environmental Protection: Second Sino-American Conference on Environmental Law (October 12-13)

4 pages.

To Protect Developing City By The Enactment Of Local Laws And Regulations, Zilin Wu

New Challenges for Environmental Protection: Second Sino-American Conference on Environmental Law (October 12-13)

13 pages.

Legislative Control Of Air Pollution & Water Pollution Of The P.R. China, Longan Xiao

New Challenges for Environmental Protection: Second Sino-American Conference on Environmental Law (October 12-13)

10 pages.

The Law Of Natural Conservation In China, Xiang-Cong Ma

New Challenges for Environmental Protection: Second Sino-American Conference on Environmental Law (October 12-13)

19 pages.

International Environmental Issues [Outline], Zheng-Kang Cheng, Daniel Magraw

New Challenges for Environmental Protection: Second Sino-American Conference on Environmental Law (October 12-13)

2 pages.

The Marine Environmental Protection Law Of The People’S Republic Of China (Chinese Version And Unofficial English Translation), Jianying Ye

New Challenges for Environmental Protection: Second Sino-American Conference on Environmental Law (October 12-13)

40 pages.

The Clean Water Act: When Dumping Dead Fish Is Not The Discharge Of A Pollutant—National Wildlife Federation V. Consumers Power Co., 862 F.2d 580 (6th Cir. 1988), Cheri Y. Cornell

Washington Law Review

The Clean Water Act defines "discharge of a pollutant" as "any addition of any pollutant to navigable waters from a point source." This Note examines National Wildlife Federation v. Consumers Power Co., in which the court held that an addition occurs only when a pollutant is introduced into water from the outside world. The Note argues that legislative history and the structure of the Clean Water Act demand an interpretation of "addition" which includes causing a pollutant to appear in water.

The Endangered Species Act And Birds Of Old-Growth Forest, Sean Skaggs

William & Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review

No abstract provided.

Can It Happen Here?, John Taylor, Diane Davis

William & Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review

No abstract provided.

The Virginia Environmental Endowment: Past And Future, Michael J. Flannery

William & Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review

No abstract provided.

Radical Environmentalism For 1990'S?, Imanuel Arin

William & Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review

No abstract provided.

Book Review: Icons And Aliens, Richard F. Babcock

Vanderbilt Law Review

I believe it was Goethe who observed that "daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game." This book may beat John Costonis, but I will wager he has started a winning game.I say this because in spite of his wit and the cartoons, he is going to make some Very Important People mad-if they will read this book. I would like to see the faces of, say, Kent Barwick, President of the Municipal Art Society of New York City, and Brendan Gill of The New Yorker when they read the …

Corporate Life After Death: Cercla Preemption Of State Corporate Dissolution Law, Audrey J. Anderson

Michigan Law Review

This Note discusses CERCLA's preemption of state corporate dissolution law. Although CERCLA contains a preemption clause intended to specify CERCLA's relationship with other laws, this clause addresses only state laws that impose stricter standards than those contained in CERCLA, and does not address state laws that, like dissolution laws, remove liability from a party otherwise liable under CERCLA. Courts, therefore, have also looked to section 107 of CERCLA, which imposes liability against specified parties "[n]notwithstanding any other provision or rule of law," to determine CERCLA's general relationship with state law. Through such an analysis, courts have agreed that CERCLA does …

Misery Loves Company: Spreading The Costs Of Cercla Cleanup, Anne D. Weber

Vanderbilt Law Review

The typical case arising under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act' (CERCLA) involves hazardous waste generation and disposal spanning several decades by companies no longer in existence. Subsequent attempts at cleanup by federal and state governments and private parties, as well as legal battles over the ultimate responsibility, are also at issue in the typical CERCLA case. A single party is rarely responsible for the toxic waste pollution of a site. Usually, a toxic waste site, such as a landfill, will have numerous potentially responsible parties (PRPs): generators;transporters; current owners and their lessees; former owners and operators and …

Resource Law Notes Newsletter, No. 18, Sept. 1989, University Of Colorado Boulder. Natural Resources Law Center

Resource Law Notes: The Newsletter of the Natural Resources Law Center (1984-2002)

No abstract provided.

The Effect Of Superfund Liability On Property Owners, Michael A. Bell

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.

International Environmental Law: Turning The Tide On Marine Pollution, Yvonne L. Tharpes

University of Miami Inter-American Law Review

No abstract provided.

Control Of The Reservation Environment: Tribal Primacy, Federal Delegation, And The Limits Of State Intrusion, Judith V. Royster, Rory Snowarrow Fausett

Washington Law Review

Inter-sovereign disputes over environmental regulation in Indian country are increasingly common. The federal government, individual states, and native nations all assert interests in controlling pollution on Indian reservations; the question of which sovereign should regulate in this area presents complex issues of federal law, native self-determination, and state autonomy. In this Article, the authors trace the roots of federal, state, and tribal authority to control events within reservation boundaries. Applying a three-tiered analysis to the problem, the authors examine: express federal preemption of state pollution control laws; federal program delegation to native governments as a bar to state regulation; and …

Transboundary Groundwaters: The Bellagio Draft Treaty, Robert D. Hayton, Albert E. Utton

Publications

Increasing populations and industrial and agricultural development worldwide are placing much greater demands on groundwater supplies. Many of these groundwater basins or aquifers underlie two or more countries and are, thus, international or transboundary. Withdrawals from one country can drain life-giving water from a neighboring country and, as a consequence, be the source of severe and protracted conflict. Unfortunately, international law and treaty practice are only at a beginning stage. With the goal of advancing international law and institutions on the matter, a multi-disciplinary group of specialists over an eight-year period have developed a draft international groundwater treaty.

The draft …

Front Matter, Natural Resources Journal

Natural Resources Journal

No abstract provided.

Interior Turns Off Tap For Wilderness Areas, M. Gloria Tristani

Natural Resources Journal

No abstract provided.

Using Surveys To Value Public Goods: The Contingent Valuation Method, Raymond Price

Natural Resources Journal

No abstract provided.