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Supply, Demand, And Consequences: The Impact Of Information Flow On Individual Permitting Decisions Under Section 404 Of The Clean Water Act, Alyson C. Flournoy Apr 2008

Supply, Demand, And Consequences: The Impact Of Information Flow On Individual Permitting Decisions Under Section 404 Of The Clean Water Act, Alyson C. Flournoy

UF Law Faculty Publications

This paper focuses on a public trust resource -- wetlands -- and examines an issue that has been studied primarily with reference to health-based pollution-control statutes. This paper assesses whether information gaps create an obstacle to successful regulation under section 404 of the Clean Water Act (CWA or "the Act") as it applies to discharges of dredged and fill material in wetlands. It focuses on how section 404 and the regulations governing permitting determine information demands, information supply, and the legal consequences of a gap between supply and demand. The goal of this inquiry into the demand/supply/consequences scheme is to …


The Economic Theory Of Nuisance Law And Implications For Environmental Regulation, Keith N. Hylton Apr 2008

The Economic Theory Of Nuisance Law And Implications For Environmental Regulation, Keith N. Hylton

Faculty Scholarship

In this article, I will explore in detail the structure of nuisance law as a mechanism for regulating environmental interferences and suggest a modernized enforcement regime. The modem regime would retain public enforcement primarily in identifying environmental harms. Public enforcement might also be retained in the discovery of sources of harm, as long as it is more efficient than private enforcement in that task. However, enforcement efforts in the proposed regime would largely be delegated to private enforcers. Moreover, the decentralized approach would permit tougher environmental rules than under the public enforcement approach in some areas, and perhaps weaker regulations …


Synthesizing Tsca And Reach: Practical Principles For Chemical Regulation Reform, John S. Applegate Jan 2008

Synthesizing Tsca And Reach: Practical Principles For Chemical Regulation Reform, John S. Applegate

Articles by Maurer Faculty

The European Union's newly enacted comprehensive regulation for industrial chemicals, known as REACH, draws heavily on three decades of experience in the United States under the Toxic Substances Control Act. Much of that experience has been negative, inasmuch as TSCA is widely regarded as a disappointment among US environmental laws, and so REACH deliberately reverses many of the legislative choices that Congress made in TSCA. REACH also takes advantage of important new regulatory concepts that were not available to the framers of TSCA thirty years ago. The passage of REACH has sparked renewed interest in reforming TSCA, and the reformers …


Bridging The Data Gap: Balancing The Supply And Demand For Chemical Information, John S. Applegate Jan 2008

Bridging The Data Gap: Balancing The Supply And Demand For Chemical Information, John S. Applegate

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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States Take The Wheel—Green Mountain Chrysler Plymntouth Dodge Jeep V. Crombie Gives States A Chance To Choose The Direction Of Their Automobile Emissions Regulation, Sarah E. Leatherwood Jan 2008

States Take The Wheel—Green Mountain Chrysler Plymntouth Dodge Jeep V. Crombie Gives States A Chance To Choose The Direction Of Their Automobile Emissions Regulation, Sarah E. Leatherwood

Oklahoma Law Review

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