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Vietnam And The United States: Mining Pollution And The Tragedy Of The Commons, Heather Whitney
Vietnam And The United States: Mining Pollution And The Tragedy Of The Commons, Heather Whitney
Heather Whitney
This paper will discuss Vietnam’s mining pollution problem, and its efforts to foster clean water create and an environmental protection framework within its Constitution, environmental laws and regulations. This paper will also juxtapose these issues with the United States’ regulatory mechanisms for mining and water quality protection, which in comparison are complex and well-rounded, but nonetheless still have regulatory and enforcement loopholes that prevent proper water quality protection. In Vietnam, like most developing countries, regulations and policy statements place socioeconomic growth above water quality protection that frustrates these efforts. Environmental and water quality laws and regulations in Vietnam have not …
Devil In The Bidding Detail, Lisa E. Sachs, Jacky Mandelbaum, Perrine Toledano
Devil In The Bidding Detail, Lisa E. Sachs, Jacky Mandelbaum, Perrine Toledano
Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment Staff Publications
In light of the recent boom in natural resource prices, India is one of them many countries facing heightened scrutiny of the allocation and terms of their resource deals. In India, that scrutiny has uncovered a multi-billion dollar controversy over coal block allocations that has gridlocked Parliament. More generally, citizens in resource-producing countries around the world are asking whether the public is getting a fair value for their countries resources, or whether investors and politicians are walking away with the prize. Finally, the important questions are being asked: how should resources be managed to ensure that they benefit the citizenry, …
Judicial Limitation Of The Epa's Oversight Authority In Clean Water Act Permitting Of Mountaintop Mining Valley Fills , Christopher D. Eaton
Judicial Limitation Of The Epa's Oversight Authority In Clean Water Act Permitting Of Mountaintop Mining Valley Fills , Christopher D. Eaton
Michigan Journal of Environmental & Administrative Law
Mountaintop removal mining operations in the Appalachian region have expanded significantly in recent decades. The practice decimates the mountain ecosystems by leveling forests, filling headwater streams, and producing significant runoff of heavy metals, sediment, and other pollutants that impair the aquatic environment of entire watersheds. Yet environmental permitting of the practice is relatively limited. A recent trend in litigation aimed at halting mining operations has involved challenging permits that authorize the discharge of mining overburden into headwater streams pursuant to the Clean Water Act (CWA). The Army Corps of Engineers has assumed jurisdiction over such discharges under section 404 of …
Foreign Investment And Indigenous Peoples: Options For Promoting Equilibrium Between Economic Development And Indigenous Rights, George K. Foster
Foreign Investment And Indigenous Peoples: Options For Promoting Equilibrium Between Economic Development And Indigenous Rights, George K. Foster
Michigan Journal of International Law
The quotations above refer to distinct conflicts that are widely separated by time and geography but remarkably similar in other respects. The first describes events leading to the Black Hills War of 1876, in which the U.S. Army forced the Lakota Sioux and Northern Cheyenne onto reservations to make way for gold mining by non-Indians. The second describes a violent episode in a conflict between native groups and the Peruvian government, which began in 2009 when the government took steps to expand mining and oil operations by multinational enterprises (MNEs) in the Peruvian Amazon. In both cases, outside commercial interests …
Introductory Remarks: International Energy Governance, Lakshman Guruswamy
Introductory Remarks: International Energy Governance, Lakshman Guruswamy
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