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Clean Up Your Act, Alan Ramo Oct 1999

Clean Up Your Act, Alan Ramo

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Sovereignty And Ecology: An Introduction To The Issue, Paul Stanton Kibel Apr 1999

Sovereignty And Ecology: An Introduction To The Issue, Paul Stanton Kibel

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Using Federal Property Rights Laws For Environmental Justice, Colin Crawford Jan 1999

Using Federal Property Rights Laws For Environmental Justice, Colin Crawford

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The late Ralph Santiago Abascal, who worked for years out of California Rural Legal Services and became one of the most admired legal service attorneys of his generation, was co-counsel in a celebrated environmental justice victory, El Pueblo Para Aqua y Aire Limpio v. County of Kings. El Pueblo successfully blocked the proposed siting of a hazardous waste incinerator by holding that the project's proponents had not translated the public review documents into Spanish in a majority monolingual Spanish-speaking community. Despite this victory, however, Abascal later observed, "The handful of reported environmental justice cases that have raised civil rights claims …


National Incentives To Protect Natural Resources: Preserving Their Place In International Trade, Paul S. Kibel Jan 1999

National Incentives To Protect Natural Resources: Preserving Their Place In International Trade, Paul S. Kibel

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This Dialogue attempts to place the conflict between the principles of negative externalities and comparative advantage in a less theoretical context. To that end, the author examines the relationship between national incentives to protect natural resources and international trade rules that seek to restrict the use of natural resource subsidies. The author further evaluates the extent to which the international trade rules account for the problem of negative externalities, and the extent to which the rules recognize the potentially effective role that national incentive programs can play in correcting market failures. From this evaluation, the author concludes that the legitimacy …


How To Reduce Lead Exposures With One Simple Statute: The Experience Of Proposition 65, Clifford Rechtschaffen Jan 1999

How To Reduce Lead Exposures With One Simple Statute: The Experience Of Proposition 65, Clifford Rechtschaffen

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Human exposure to lead is one of the most serious environmental health threats today. Lead causes a variety of adverse health effects and is particularly harmful to children. Unfortunately, the current regulation of lead exposures is fragmented and often unsuccessful. California's Proposition 65, a right-to-know initiative, however, has achieved some noteworthy successes in reducing public exposures to lead. Proposition 65 has spurred faster and more significant lead reductions than federal law by prompting companies to reformulate products and change their manufacturing processes. This Article first discusses the hazards and uses of lead. The author next describes several instances that demonstrate …


Dedication: Professor Albert E. Utton (1931-1998), David H. Getches Jan 1999

Dedication: Professor Albert E. Utton (1931-1998), David H. Getches

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