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Slides: Development Of Shale: Water Resource Concerns And Policy Considerations, Katy Dunlap
Slides: Development Of Shale: Water Resource Concerns And Policy Considerations, Katy Dunlap
Shale Plays in the Intermountain West: Legal and Policy Issues (November 12)
Presenter: Katy Dunlap, Eastern Water Project Director, Trout Unlimited, Inc., Burdett, NY
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Understanding Cercla Through Webster's New World Dictionary And State Common Law: Forestalling The Federalization Of Property Law, Shelby D. Green
Understanding Cercla Through Webster's New World Dictionary And State Common Law: Forestalling The Federalization Of Property Law, Shelby D. Green
Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications
The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act ("CERCLA") was hastily enacted in 1980 in the wake of the Love Canal disaster, where vast amounts of toxic wastes were found buried beneath a residential community. The contours of this legislation, though comprehensive in its outward scope, have been difficult to discern, largely as a consequence of vague and confusing expression. Though often the first tool resorted to for interpretation is the dictionary, the courts have looked beyond the literal terms, in an effort to determine the intended and sensible limits, consistent with both the congressional aim to reach broad categories …