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Housing Impact Assessments: Opening New Doors For State Housing Regulation While Localism Persists, Tim Iglesias

Tim Iglesias

America’s housing crisis is serious, pervasive and chronic. It burdens people of color and low-income households most severely, but is now recognized to hinder millions of moderate-income households and full-time workers in mainstream occupations. Past and current housing policies have not solved our chronic housing crisis. This article seeks to open up states’ housing policy to new possibilities through the application of a regulatory regime that helped turn around America’s environmental policies.

The fundamental problem underlying our housing crisis is the failure of local governments to consistently integrate housing concerns into the full range of land use policies and decisions …

Amending The Clean Air Act To Establish Democratic Legitimacy For The Residual Risk Program, Patricia Ross Mccubbin

Patricia Ross McCubbin

This article analyzes the flawed assumptions underlying the regulation of hazardous air pollutants under section 112 of the Clean Air Act. By tracing the legislative history and regulatory evolution of the Residual Risk Program under that provision, the article argues that Congress and the judiciary have developed an incorrect presumption that EPA can determine “safe” emission levels of hazardous air pollutants without considering the cost and feasibility of regulation (an argument that also has implications for EPA’s process of setting national ambient air quality standards). The article demonstrates that EPA has avoided the illogical results of that presumption by considering …

Energy, Climate Change And Sustainable Development, David R. Hodas

David R. Hodas

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Where The Water Hits The Road: Case Update To Recent Developments In Clean Water Act Litigation, James R. May

James R. May

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Achieving Sustainable Development: The Centrality And Multiple Facets Of Integrated Decisionmaking, John C. Dernbach

John C. Dernbach

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Seasons Of Resistance: Sustainable Agriculture And Food Security In Cuba, Carmen G. Gonzalez

Carmen G. Gonzalez

Beginning in the mid-1990s, Cuba embarked upon a transformation of the agricultural sector that has been hailed by some observers as a model of socially equitable and ecologically sustainable agriculture. Cuba shifted from an export-oriented, chemical-intensive agricultural development strategy to one that promoted organic agriculture and encouraged production for the domestic market. This article places Cuba's agricultural reforms in historical context by examining the evolution of Cuban agriculture from the colonial period until the present through the lens of food security and ecological sustainability. The article argues that Cuba, for most of its history, was food insecure and ecologically compromised …