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Waste 2.0: Updating California's Electric-Waste Recycling Policies For The Digital Age, Mary Loung

Golden Gate University Environmental Law Journal

When electronic products are improperly disposed of or sent to unregulated recycling sites, the e-waste breaks down in the area without appropriate safeguards. Toxic substances like mercury, lead, and arsenic are then released into the ground, causing soil, water, and air contamination. These e-waste toxins are known to have caused cancer, respiratory illness, and reproductive problems. Also, the chance to reclaim valuable materials and safely recycle the toxic materials is lost forever under the mountain of garbage. Therefore, finding innovative and all-encompassing ways to reduce, reuse, and recycle electronics products is important in solving this e-waste crisis.

As the e-waste …

Maintaining The California Environmental Quality Act's Informational Goals Under The Use Of Design-Build, Christopher L. Garcia

Golden Gate University Environmental Law Journal

Today’s environmentally conscious world demands that those who undertake construction projects consider their effects on air and water quality, the flora and fauna, and where people will live, among other public concerns. Chief in ensuring that these impacts are considered before construction in the Golden State is the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). CEQA is “the cornerstone of California’s environmental laws,” requiring mitigation, public comment, and controls approval of construction projects that may potentially have a significant effect on the environment. At its core, CEQA is a comprehensive environmental protection and informational statute designed to ensure that the developer of …

Effective Environmental Policymaking: A Regional Review Of Codifying Policy Through Citizen-Sponsored Ballot Measures, Elizabeth Colman

Golden Gate University Environmental Law Journal

In order to assess the value of the statewide ballot measure as a tool for environmental advocates, this Comment will explore the electoral outcomes of citizen-sponsored statewide environmental ballot measures in four Pacific states with a long history of direct democracy. California, Oregon, Washington, and Alaska, all rich in pristine lands, make up just one region of the American political landscape, but they provide a meaningful picture of the history of environmental ballot measures.

This Comment narrows the broad topic of “environmental” ballot measures into six workable categories of environmental ballot measure. Using this framework, the aim of this Comment …

Water Management: From An Uncertain Present To A Sustainable Future, Katherine A. Spanos

Golden Gate University Environmental Law Journal

Over the last ten years, two separate water management planning efforts in California—integrated regional water management and climate change planning—have come together in a way that provides similar lessons to help different interests find common ground for water management solutions. This planning synthesis has resulted in a significant change in the way California now addresses issues of water management.

After a brief background discussion (Part II), Part III of this Article examines the history of the merger of these two initiatives. Part IV explores an approach for water management based on the experience gained from this history. This approach is …

Tellez V. Dole: Nicaraguan Banana Workers Confront The U.S. Judicial System, Armin Rosencranz, Stephen Roblin

Golden Gate University Environmental Law Journal

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In This Edition, Cynthia Tyler, Andrew J. Graf

Golden Gate University Environmental Law Journal

It is with great honor and pleasure that we introduce Golden Gate University Environmental Law Journal’s seventh Pacific Region Edition. This edition features a diverse range of articles authored by legal scholars and comments by current students with a focus on environmental issues affecting the Pacific Region and the United States.

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Fixing The Cec Submissions Procedure: Are The 2012 Revisions Up To The Task?, John H. Knox

Golden Gate University Environmental Law Journal

The citizen submissions procedure of the North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) celebrates its twentieth birthday this year. After a promising childhood, the procedure has had a stormy adolescence, vexed by accusations of ineffectiveness, bias, and delay. In 2012, the CEC adopted revisions to the procedure that promise to improve its timeliness, but do little or nothing to address its other problems. As the procedure enters its twenties, settled maturity is still a distant prospect. Created in 1993 by the North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation (NAAEC), a tri-national agreement between Canada, Mexico, and the United States, the submissions …

Understanding Canada's Responses To Citizen Submissions Under The Naaec, Chris Tollefson, Anthony Ho

Golden Gate University Environmental Law Journal

The North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation (NAAEC) is a side-agreement to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), to which the United States, Canada, and Mexico are signatory parties (Parties). A central feature of the NAAEC is its citizen submission on enforcement matters (SEM) process, by which citizens and citizen groups from any of the three signatory countries can call on the NAAEC Secretariat to consider whether a Party is failing to effectively enforce its environmental laws. To date, there have been eighty-one citizen submissions filed against the three Parties. Much of the scholarship surrounding the SEM process has …

Seeking A Regulatory Chill In Canada: The Dow Agrosciences Nafta Chapter 11 Challenge To The Quebec Pesticides Management Code, Kathleen Cooper, Kyra Bell-Pasht, Ramani Nadarajah, Theresa Mcclenaghan

Golden Gate University Environmental Law Journal

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Continental Chill: An Introduction To The Issue, Paul Stanton Kibel, Allyson L. Umberger

Golden Gate University Environmental Law Journal

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