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Notes From A Climate Change Pressure-Cooker: Sub-Federal Attempts At Transformation Meet National Resistance In The Usa, Cinnamon P. Carlarne
Notes From A Climate Change Pressure-Cooker: Sub-Federal Attempts At Transformation Meet National Resistance In The Usa, Cinnamon P. Carlarne
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Common Law Environmental Protection: Introduction, Jonathan H. Adler, Andrew P. Morriss
Common Law Environmental Protection: Introduction, Jonathan H. Adler, Andrew P. Morriss
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Today there is widespread dissatisfaction with many aspects of federal environmental law. The apparent success of early environmental regulations notwithstanding, many analysts and academics have begun to reexamine the potential of common law causes of action to supplement, if not supplant, portions of the existing regulatory regime. Yet whatever the failings of the environmental regulatory state, the common law has failings of its own, including the failure to protect many ecological resources in the period before the enactment of federal environmental law. This essay is the introduction to a paper-only symposium on Common Law Environmental Protection, forthcoming in the Case …
Sepas, Climate Change, And Corporate Responsibility: The Contribution Of Local Government, Catherine J. Lacroix
Sepas, Climate Change, And Corporate Responsibility: The Contribution Of Local Government, Catherine J. Lacroix
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Municipalities in the United States are increasingly active in the effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Data suggest that the physical layout of communities and the buildings they contain make significant contributions to greenhouse gas emissions and thus to climate change. One useful tool for municipalities could be the Environmental Impact Statement (EIS), pioneered in the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) at the federal level and subsequently adopted as a policymaking guide in the State Environmental Policy Acts (SEPAs) of many states. A SEPA requires state governments - and, in six states, local governments as well - to consider the …