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2014

Environmental Law

American University Washington College of Law

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Environmental Disasters And Human Health Consequences: A Year In Review, Susan Johnson, Blythe Brauer, Samantha Bird, Andrea Abergel, Jon Davey, Mary Strayhorne Dec 2014

Environmental Disasters And Human Health Consequences: A Year In Review, Susan Johnson, Blythe Brauer, Samantha Bird, Andrea Abergel, Jon Davey, Mary Strayhorne

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

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Requiring The Use Of Tracers In Hydraulic Fracturing Fluid To Trace Alleged Contamination, Stephanie Kurose Dec 2014

Requiring The Use Of Tracers In Hydraulic Fracturing Fluid To Trace Alleged Contamination, Stephanie Kurose

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

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When Big Oil Comes To A Small Town: The Exxonmobil Oil Spill In Mayflower In Context, James D. Hekel Jr. Dec 2014

When Big Oil Comes To A Small Town: The Exxonmobil Oil Spill In Mayflower In Context, James D. Hekel Jr.

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The Gold War Of Romania: Sustainable Development Or Irreversible Damage?, Alexandra Manea Dec 2014

The Gold War Of Romania: Sustainable Development Or Irreversible Damage?, Alexandra Manea

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

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The Health Consequence Of Genetically Modified Organisms And Lack Of Regulation: Genetically Engineered Food Linked To Rise In Autism Prevalence, Victoria H. Peters Dec 2014

The Health Consequence Of Genetically Modified Organisms And Lack Of Regulation: Genetically Engineered Food Linked To Rise In Autism Prevalence, Victoria H. Peters

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Rubber-Stamped Regulation: The Inadequate Oversight Of Genetically Engineered Plants And Animals In The United States, Genna Reed Dec 2014

Rubber-Stamped Regulation: The Inadequate Oversight Of Genetically Engineered Plants And Animals In The United States, Genna Reed

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The Minamata Convention On Mercury: Past, Present, And Future Environmental Health, Maggie Coulter Dec 2014

The Minamata Convention On Mercury: Past, Present, And Future Environmental Health, Maggie Coulter

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

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Driving Innovation: How Stronger Laws Pull Safer Chemicals Into The Market, Baskut Tuncak Dec 2014

Driving Innovation: How Stronger Laws Pull Safer Chemicals Into The Market, Baskut Tuncak

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

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Editor's Note, Veronica Kennedy Dec 2014

Editor's Note, Veronica Kennedy

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

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U.S. Food Aid Reform Through Alternative Dispute Resolution, Delilah J. Griswold Mar 2014

U.S. Food Aid Reform Through Alternative Dispute Resolution, Delilah J. Griswold

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

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Article Xx: Protector Of Public Health, The Environment, And The New Provisions Of European Union’S Fuel Quality Directive, Joy Marie Virga Mar 2014

Article Xx: Protector Of Public Health, The Environment, And The New Provisions Of European Union’S Fuel Quality Directive, Joy Marie Virga

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

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Indonesia’S Role In Realizing The Goals Of Asean’S Agreement On Transboundary Haze Pollution, David B. Jerger Jr Mar 2014

Indonesia’S Role In Realizing The Goals Of Asean’S Agreement On Transboundary Haze Pollution, David B. Jerger Jr

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

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Genetically Modified Food: A Golden Opportunity?, Susan Johnson Mar 2014

Genetically Modified Food: A Golden Opportunity?, Susan Johnson

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

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Oversight And Accountability Of Water Privatization Contracts: A Proposed Legislative Policy., Mary Strayhorne Mar 2014

Oversight And Accountability Of Water Privatization Contracts: A Proposed Legislative Policy., Mary Strayhorne

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

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How Environmental Review Can Generate Car-Induced Pollution: A Case Study, Michael Lewyn Mar 2014

How Environmental Review Can Generate Car-Induced Pollution: A Case Study, Michael Lewyn

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

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As The World Welcomes Its Seventh Billionth Human: Reflections And Population, Law, And The Environment, Robert Hardaway Mar 2014

As The World Welcomes Its Seventh Billionth Human: Reflections And Population, Law, And The Environment, Robert Hardaway

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

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Editor's Note, Veronica Kennedy Mar 2014

Editor's Note, Veronica Kennedy

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

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Environment, Energy, And Resources Law, Amanda Leiter Jan 2014

Environment, Energy, And Resources Law, Amanda Leiter

Contributions to Books

This chapter from The Year in Review, published by the ABA Section on Environment, Energy and Resources, covers developments during 2013 in the areas of standing, Commerce Clause, political question doctrine, preemption, takings, due process, First Amendment, Tenth Amendment, and state constitutional law.

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Frostpaw Addresses Global Warming, William Snape Jan 2014

Frostpaw Addresses Global Warming, William Snape

Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals

INTRODUCTION: Climate change impacts the law on many levels and in many ways. This Article asks a threshold question: what legal structures will most effectively reduce growing levels of anthropogenic greenhouse pollution? The answer is that an existing U.S. statute-the Clean Air Act-not only possesses clear commands to ratchet down greenhouse pollutants domestically, but also provides explicit authority to negotiate concomitant air pollution reduction with countries around the planet in a fair, transparent, and reciprocal fashion. Further, application of the Clean Air Act is consistent with other legal and policy tools to address global warming. This statute-based solution, while facially …

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Health Law As Social Justice, Lindsay Wiley Jan 2014

Health Law As Social Justice, Lindsay Wiley

Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals

Health law is in the midst of a dramatic transformation. From a relatively narrow discipline focused on regulating relationships among individual patients, health care providers, and third-party payers, it is expanding into a far broader field with a burgeoning commitment to access to health care and assurance of healthy living conditions as matters of social justice. Through a series of incremental reform efforts stretching back decades before the Affordable Care Act and encompassing public health law as well as the law of health care financing and delivery, reducing health disparities has become a central focus of American health law and …

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Fracking As A Federalism Case Study, Amanda Leiter Jan 2014

Fracking As A Federalism Case Study, Amanda Leiter

Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals

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Utility Air Regulatory Group V. Epa: A Shot Across The Bow Of The Administrative State, Amanda Leiter Jan 2014

Utility Air Regulatory Group V. Epa: A Shot Across The Bow Of The Administrative State, Amanda Leiter

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