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Recentering Environmental Law: A Thought Experiment

Legal Planet

How would environmental law look different and how might we be thinking about it differently? First of all, we would have had a very different understanding of the air pollution problem. We thought that the key to reducing air pollution was to require better pollution control devices. Download as PDF

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U.C. Davis Law School to Host “Clean Water Act at 50” Conference

Legal Planet

On Friday, October 7th, the California Environmental Law & Policy Center at U.C. Davis School of Law will convene a major, day-long conference to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the federal Clean Water Act. Davis School of Law. The event will assess the progress the U.S. Hall, the U.C. It is free to attendees.

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BP refinery hit with $40 million fine, agrees to spend $200 million on pollution control

Environmental News Bits

BP agreed to pay a $40 million penalty and spend almost $200 million on environmental controls to settle government allegations that the company released excessive toxic chemicals at its Whiting, Indiana, oil refinery on Lake Michigan.

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"Environmental law" - a response to Farber

Environment, Law, and History

These developments set the stage for the blossoming of federal environmental law with the passages of NEPA, the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, and other major legislation in the decade that followed." Wolfe, Los Angeles County Air Pollution Control District vehicle, Burbank, 1947-1950?

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Reflections on a Century of “Regulatory Takings” Law

Legal Planet

Credit: ABA for Law Students. In 1921, however, the Pennsylvania Legislature passed a law–the Kohler Act–prohibiting the mining of underground coal in a manner that would cause subsidence of the property leading to damage or destruction of a surface dwelling. One hundred years ago this month, the U.S.

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Minnesota seeks comment on PFAS in products law

Environmental News Bits

Read the full story in the National Law Review. The state of Minnesota is seeking comment on rulemaking to implement one of the country’s two broadest per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in product laws.

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DOJ Gets Off Its Moral High Horse: Ameren Missouri Will Close Early

Law and Environment

Ameren Missouri submitted to the Court a proposal to shut Rush Island early rather than install expensive pollution control equipment. . The post DOJ Gets Off Its Moral High Horse: Ameren Missouri Will Close Early first appeared on Law and the Environment. None of this was really news.