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Environmental Law

The U.S. Supreme Court Adds Procedural and Remedies Issues to Its Docket

January 20, 2010

          Two of five cases the United States Supreme Court agreed to hear last week deal with the procedure or remedies that govern in federal court.  Both decisions may be important to federal court litigants in a wide variety of cases.

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The Public's Right to Know

October 16, 2009

The Public's Right to Know: or how polluted is Summit County?
“Every American has the right to know the chemicals to which they may be exposed in their daily living. Right-to-know laws provide information about possible chemical exposures.”   Source: U.S. EPA
Polluted water.  Polluted air.  Superfund sites. Toxic Release of Chemicals.  This is all happening around us.  [...]

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Court says states may require more air pollution monitoring than USEPA – but dissent says this disrupts the regulatory scheme

August 22, 2008

It looks like a classic battle between treehuggers and industrial polluters, between liberals and conservatives, between Democrats and Republicans. As we will see, however, the truth is more complicated.

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The Great Lakes Compact – Now It's Up to Congress to Prevent the Water Wars

July 16, 2008

At long last, the eight states of the Great Lakes Basin and two Canadian provinces have all agreed to the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River Water Resources Compact. Unlike the fast-growing regions of the South and Southwest, we are blessed with the single largest source of fresh water in the world – the Great Lakes. As [...]

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