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Trans-Atlantic Ghost Busting: The Failed Attempt To Dispose Of The Chesapeake "Ghost Fleet" In The United Kingdom, David Killion
Trans-Atlantic Ghost Busting: The Failed Attempt To Dispose Of The Chesapeake "Ghost Fleet" In The United Kingdom, David Killion
University of Richmond Law Review
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Environmental Law, Brooks Meredith Smith, Andrea West Wortzel
Environmental Law, Brooks Meredith Smith, Andrea West Wortzel
University of Richmond Law Review
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Rapanos, Carabell, And The Isolated Man, Joel B. Eisen
Rapanos, Carabell, And The Isolated Man, Joel B. Eisen
University of Richmond Law Review
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Book Review- Turning The Tide: Saving The Chesapeake Bay, Carl W. Tobias
Book Review- Turning The Tide: Saving The Chesapeake Bay, Carl W. Tobias
University of Richmond Law Review
Nearly a quarter century ago, the states of the Chesapeake Bay region entered a compact by which they meant to improve the declining environmental quality of this national treasure. Concerned about the Bay's accelerating degradation, these jurisdictions hoped that the agreement would enhance the situation or at least stop the deterioration. Ten years after that accord's consummation, Tom Horton evaluated whether progress had been achieved in improving the Bay's environmental health. The writer determined that the answer was inconclusive. When a second decade had passed since the compact's adoption, Horton decided that he would conduct another examination to determine what …
Annual Survey Of Virginia Law: Environmental Law, Kelley A. Kinney, Andrea West Wortzel
Annual Survey Of Virginia Law: Environmental Law, Kelley A. Kinney, Andrea West Wortzel
University of Richmond Law Review
This article reviews the key environmental developments at the federal and state levels during the period from June 1996 to June 1998. Legislation and judicial decisions are presented topically. Certain issues, such as public participation and environmental justice, are playing an increasing role and will likely impact all media.
Finding The Pearl In The Oyster: Strategies For A More Effective Implementation Of Virginia's Chesapeake Bay Preservation Act, Patrick J. Skelley Ii
Finding The Pearl In The Oyster: Strategies For A More Effective Implementation Of Virginia's Chesapeake Bay Preservation Act, Patrick J. Skelley Ii
University of Richmond Law Review
Since our nation's infancy, the Chesapeake Bay ("Bay") has been one of Virginia's natural treasures. The Bay is America's largest and historically most productive estuary, valued today as an economic resource, a wilderness sanctuary, and an aesthetic asset. Every year, commercial fishermen harvest blue crabs, oysters, and a multitude of fish species in mass quantities to satiate our desire for seafood. Nature aficionados can observe ospreys, laughing gulls, and other shorebirds taking their share of the Bay's bounty. From the -shoreline, quiet vacation homes overlook the waters across coves and inlets. Despite these idyllic images, the Bay has been facing …
Federal Minimums: Insufficient To Save The Bay, Roy A. Hoagland, Jean G. Watts
Federal Minimums: Insufficient To Save The Bay, Roy A. Hoagland, Jean G. Watts
University of Richmond Law Review
In this era of deregulation, streamlining, and government reform, the voices of state government often ring out the philosophy of "no stricter than federal law" when discussing environmental initiatives. The argument that federal minimums can serve as a minimalistic, one-size-fits-all framework for environmental protection not only contradicts the same voices' arguments for flexibility and site-specific solutions, but also ignores the reality that federal minimums alone simply cannot and will not restore our waters, conserve our land, or protect our air.
Deception, Self-Deception, And Myth: Evaluating Long-Term Environmental Settlements, William H. Rodgers Jr.
Deception, Self-Deception, And Myth: Evaluating Long-Term Environmental Settlements, William H. Rodgers Jr.
University of Richmond Law Review
This paper draws upon six famous settlements that are known in various degrees to students of environmental law. Three are a matter of deep history: the 1970 Environmental Defense Fund settlement that led the last manufacturer of DDT in the U.S. to cease discharges into the Los Angeles sewer system and thence into Santa Monica Bay, the Kepone settlement of the mid-70s that followed in the wake of Judge Merhige's initial assessment of a record-breaking criminal fine of $13.24 million, and the Hudson River settlement of the early 1980s in which environmentalists gave up demands for cooling towers on several …
Federal Minimums: Insufficient To Save The Bay, Roy A. Hoagland, Jean G. Watts
Federal Minimums: Insufficient To Save The Bay, Roy A. Hoagland, Jean G. Watts
University of Richmond Law Review
In this era of deregulation, streamlining, and government reform, the voices of state government often ring out the philosophy of "no stricter than federal law" when discussing environmental initiatives. The argument that federal minimums can serve as a minimalistic, one-size-fits-all framework for environmental protection not only contradicts the same voices' arguments for flexibility and site-specific solutions, but also ignores the reality that federal minimums alone simply cannot and will not restore our waters, conserve our land, or protect our air.
Changes In The Clean Water Act Since Kepone: Would They Have Made A Difference?, Wiliam Goldfarb
Changes In The Clean Water Act Since Kepone: Would They Have Made A Difference?, Wiliam Goldfarb
University of Richmond Law Review
In the anti-regulatory climate that currently pervades the American political scene, it is important to emphasize the palpable and significant accomplishments of environmental regulation. One measure of the success of environmental law during the past twenty-five years is that long-term, relatively localized environmental contamination-such as the pollution of the lower James River by Kepone between 1966 and 1975-probably can no longer occur in the United States. Major environmental statutes, enacted during the decade between 1976 and 1986, have precluded continuing environmental abuses of this scope and magnitude. The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), enacted in 1976, establishes a compre- …