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Environmental Indifference, Anthony L. Moffa
Environmental Indifference, Anthony L. Moffa
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An incarcerated American underclass, disproportionately comprised of minority citizens, has been compelled to live in an unconstitutionally polluted environment. Exposure to radon gas in indoor air is just one example of that pollution. Fortunately, the legal effort to address that particular condition of confinement has already begun; the theoretical and practical discussion in this work strives to both highlight the importance of the issue and inform the doctrinal development. The Eighth Amendment precedent created on the specific issue of radon exposure will very likely control the courts’ treatment of other environmental harms ignored by prison officials. This work, using radon …
President Trump, The New Chicago School And The Future Of Environmental Law And Scholarship, Sarah B. Schindler
President Trump, The New Chicago School And The Future Of Environmental Law And Scholarship, Sarah B. Schindler
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Recent presidents including Bill Clinton, G. W. Bush, and Barack Obama have refined how environmental law has been enacted and carried out. Under President Trump, the scope of public environmental law will most certainly narrow. It seems likely that the future of environmental law will depend not upon traditional federal command-and-control legislation or executive branch maneuvering, but instead upon activating environmentalism through expanded substantive areas and innovative regulatory techniques that fall outside the existing, traditional norms of environmental law and legal scholarship. This chapter is an attempt to acknowledge this monumental change, recognizing that these barriers to traditional environmental regulation …
Public Energy, Shelley Welton
Public Energy, Shelley Welton
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Many scholars and policy makers celebrate cities as loci for addressing climate change. In addition to being significant sources of carbon pollution, cities prove to be dynamic sites of experimentation and ambition on climate policy. However, as U.S. cities set climate change goals far above those of their federal and state counterparts, they are butting up against the limits of their existing legal authority, most notably with regard to control over energy supplies. In response, many U.S. cities are exercising their legal rights to reclaim public ownership or control over private electric utilities as a method of achieving their climate …
Do Sagebrush Rebels Have A Colorable Claim? The Space Between Parochialism And Exclusion In Federal Lands Management, Ann M. Eisenberg
Do Sagebrush Rebels Have A Colorable Claim? The Space Between Parochialism And Exclusion In Federal Lands Management, Ann M. Eisenberg
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This Article asks whether the troubling nature of the Sagebrush Rebellion and similar movements (e.g., their violence, antienvironmentalism, and racist overtones) has made us overly dismissive of a kernel of truth in their complaints. Commentators often acknowledge that federal lands management may be “unfair” to local communities, but the ethical and legal characteristics of the unfairness concern remain under-explored. Although the Sagebrush Rebellion and federal lands communities are far from synonymous, substantial overlap between the complaints and demands of Sagebrush Rebels and the complaints and demands of many regional local (and state) governments suggests that to explore the one necessitates …
Conservative Principles For Environmental Reform,, Jonathan H. Adler
Conservative Principles For Environmental Reform,, Jonathan H. Adler
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Major environmental policy reform is long overdue. The current regulatory architecture was erected in the 1970s. Since then meaningful reforms have been few and far between. A few reforms and regulatory expansions were adopted in the 1980s, and Congress enacted significant reforms to the Clean Air Act in 1990. Only the most minor environmental bills have been enacted since then.
Federal Constraints: Possible Constitutional Hurdles To Cross-Border Cap-And-Trade,, Shelley Welton
Federal Constraints: Possible Constitutional Hurdles To Cross-Border Cap-And-Trade,, Shelley Welton
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Self-Policing In A Targeted Enforcement Regime, Sarah L. Stafford
Self-Policing In A Targeted Enforcement Regime, Sarah L. Stafford
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This paper adds to the debate over whether self-policing can increase environmental protection by considering an issue that has been ignored in previous models—that self-policing may influence future enforcement. The model combines self-policing with targeted enforcement and allows for both deliberate and inadvertent violations. As expected, rewarding self-policers with more lenient future enforcement increases auditing, remediation, and disclosure of inadvertent violations. Self-policing can also serve as a complement to deliberate compliance and can thus further increase environmental performance. However, under reasonable conditions, self-policing can be a substitute for deliberate compliance and could therefore be detrimental to environmental protection.
Looking Beyond Environmental Law's Mid-Life Crisis, Linda A. Malone
Looking Beyond Environmental Law's Mid-Life Crisis, Linda A. Malone
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Recent Developments Concerning Environmental Law And Agriculture, Linda A. Malone
Recent Developments Concerning Environmental Law And Agriculture, Linda A. Malone
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On Revolution And Wetland Regulations, Michael J. Gerhardt
On Revolution And Wetland Regulations, Michael J. Gerhardt
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The Myths And Truths That Ended The 2000 Tmdl Program, Linda A. Malone
The Myths And Truths That Ended The 2000 Tmdl Program, Linda A. Malone
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Bioavailability: On The Frontiers Of Science And Law In Cleanup Methodologies For Contamination, Linda A. Malone
Bioavailability: On The Frontiers Of Science And Law In Cleanup Methodologies For Contamination, Linda A. Malone
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Coastal Marine Science For Law And Business Students: Preparing Law And Business Professionals To Make "Informed Decisions" About Coastal Issues, David H. Niebuhr, Lynda L. Butler, Don Rahtz, Britt E. Anderson, April N. Lawrence
Coastal Marine Science For Law And Business Students: Preparing Law And Business Professionals To Make "Informed Decisions" About Coastal Issues, David H. Niebuhr, Lynda L. Butler, Don Rahtz, Britt E. Anderson, April N. Lawrence
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The rigors of employment-directed undergraduate education. and decreased emphasis on "Liberal Arts" studies occurring at some colleges and universities has left many graduates with a level of scientific understanding which is inadequate to make infonned choices about issues which effect the environment. To address this lack of scientific understanding. the Chesapeake Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve (Virginia) and the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, with the Marshall-Wythe School of Law and the School of Business Administration of the College of William and Mary are developing a Coastal Ecosystem Science Program to teach future law and business professionals the basics of …
Country/Region Reports -- United States Of America, Linda A. Malone
Country/Region Reports -- United States Of America, Linda A. Malone
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Country/Region Reports -- United States Of America, Linda A. Malone
Country/Region Reports -- United States Of America, Linda A. Malone
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Country/Region Reports -- United States Of America, Linda A. Malone
Country/Region Reports -- United States Of America, Linda A. Malone
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The Non-Impact Of The United States Supreme Court Regulatory Takings Cases On The State Courts: Does The Supreme Court Really Matter?, Ronald H. Rosenberg
The Non-Impact Of The United States Supreme Court Regulatory Takings Cases On The State Courts: Does The Supreme Court Really Matter?, Ronald H. Rosenberg
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Country/Region Reports -- United States Of America, Linda A. Malone
Country/Region Reports -- United States Of America, Linda A. Malone
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Evolving Consensus: The Dynamic Future Of Environmental Law And Policy, Ronald H. Rosenberg
Evolving Consensus: The Dynamic Future Of Environmental Law And Policy, Ronald H. Rosenberg
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Country/Region Reports -- United States Of America, Linda A. Malone
Country/Region Reports -- United States Of America, Linda A. Malone
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Exxon Collides With The "Valdez Principles", Jayne W. Barnard
Exxon Collides With The "Valdez Principles", Jayne W. Barnard
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Farmland Preservation, Linda A. Malone
An Interim Assessment Of The 1972 Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments, Denis J. Brion
An Interim Assessment Of The 1972 Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments, Denis J. Brion
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Capital Formation Options To Finance Pollution Control, Scott C. Whitney
Capital Formation Options To Finance Pollution Control, Scott C. Whitney
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Environmental Benefits Of Reducing Excess Air Transport Capacity, Scott C. Whitney
Environmental Benefits Of Reducing Excess Air Transport Capacity, Scott C. Whitney
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No abstract provided.