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VOLUME 29, NUMBER 1 |
JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2012
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The Clean Ocean Act
It’s the Clean Water Act, passed in 1972 and still our best legal tool for limiting pollution entering the marine environment. When reading the statute with an eye toward the sea, the first step is overcoming the law’s system of limits and boundaries.
By Kathryn Mengerink and Andrea A. Treece
Environmental Law Institute | Earthjustice
With Another View by Robin Kundis Craig of Florida State University |
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Tallying the Rules
The regulations finalized and proposed by the Obama EPA will have huge benefits to public health at a combined cost that is negligible to the overall economy.
By Isaac Shapiro
Economic Policy Institute
With Another View by Marlo Lewis of the Competitive Enterprise Institute |
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The Bottleneck
What happens to regulations after they are developed by the Environmental Protection Agency? They go to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in the White House, where even in a “transformative” administration too often they wither on the vine.
By Rena Steinzor and Michael Patoka
Center for Progressive Reform
With Another View by former OIRA director Jim Tozzi |
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Testimony | The Secretary Flies in, and Wings It
At the Annual Dinner, Nobel laureate and cabinet member Steven Chu, freshly back from an energy ministerial meeting, received the ELI Award and then charmed the audience of environmental professionals. His message: With government help, we can do this. |
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Forum | Toward a Rational Energy Policy
Does our current energy policy make sense? We put in place large subsidies for the fuels we want to abandon, much higher than support for renewable energy sources. We increase our use of petroleum, forcing our country to maintain a military presence in the Middle East. And we can’t seem to make up our minds on how to handle climate change. At the 2011 ELI-Miriam Hamilton Keare Policy Forum, five experts pointed to the irrational and what changes make sense. |
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THE FEDERAL BEAT
By Margaret Kriz Hobson
Extreme weather events are already having a toll on some businesses’ financial bottom lines. |
THE SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS
By Alison Taylor
When asked, “What is sustainability?” I can understand the confusion. |
AROUND THE STATES
By Linda Breggin
Making policy and investment choices in the face of strong opposition. |
SCIENCE AND THE LAW
By Craig M. Pease
We can have a study that is rigorous, or one that is relevant, but often not both in one. |
IN THE COURTS
By Richard Lazarus
The action of the Court in granting review means EPA has some persuading to do. |
THE DEVELOPING WORLD
By Bruce Rich
Civil society campaigns and legal enforcement succeeded where the World Bank did not. |
AN ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVE
By Robert N. Stavins
Democrats and Republicans take advantage of crises to push their agendas. |
NOTICE & COMMENT
By Stephen R. Dujack
The Forum uses 21st century technology but has an 18th century publishing philosophy. |
IN THE LITERATURE
By G. Tracy Mehan III
On the “pit bull” of environmental lawmaking. |
ELI REPORT
By Brett Kitchen
Annual Award goes to Dr. Steven Chu, Energy Department Secretary. |
CLOSING STATEMENT
By John C. Cruden
On lessons from a first grade class. |
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A Mock U.S. Supreme Court Argument on Climate Change Tort Liability, with John Cruden
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A Talk to a First Grade Class, a Lecture at a Law School
by John Cruden
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