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1996

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Crossroads For Federal Enforcement Of The Clean Air Act, Joyce M. Martin Jan 1996

Crossroads For Federal Enforcement Of The Clean Air Act, Joyce M. Martin

Duke Environmental Law & Policy Forum

A major goal of the Clean Air Act 1 (hereinafter CAA or "Act") is to "protect and enhance the quality of the Nation's air resources." 2 The Act uses a two tiered approach to accomplish this goal. First, the Act focuses on the national attainment and maintenance of National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for "criteria" pollutants, 3 and second, the Act also sets specific standards for known hazardous air pollutants (HAPS) 4 . The Act emphasizes throughout its text that air quality problems are national in scope and often cross state boundaries. 5 Congress clearly intended that enforcement of …


Halting Neotropical Deforestation: Do The Forest Principles Have What It Takes?, Matthew B. Royer Jan 1996

Halting Neotropical Deforestation: Do The Forest Principles Have What It Takes?, Matthew B. Royer

Duke Environmental Law & Policy Forum

INTRODUCTION I crashed into the thick secondary growth, stopping suddenly to duck a certain branch in my path: a fat black bullet ant crawled along it with indifference, an attitude that would have quickly changed had I brushed up against him. I headed toward the large patch of Heliconia just to the right. We had earlier mapped out the clump, and finding it to contain seventeen flower clusters, it was one of the prize patches in the study plot. I took my spot ten paces from the outer clusters, started my stop watch, and waited with field book in hand. …