Environmental law; examples & explanations, 4th ed.
9780735563124 Environmental law; examples & explanations, 4th ed. Ferrey, Steven. Wolters Kluwer 2007 655 pages $39.95 Paperback KF3775 This law school text by Ferrey (law, Suffolk U. Law School) is intended...

Back from the brink.
Byline: The Register-Guard The Lane Regional Air Pollution Authority has been around since 1968, long enough to seem a permanent fixture of the bureaucratic landscape. But one lesson from the recent dispute over the composition of the agency's board is that institutions are vulnerable. Starve them of...

Fairness in the air: California's air pollution hearing boards.
TABLE OF CONTENTS I. INTRODUCTION II. HEARING BOARD BASICS A. The Members B. "Getting Through" to the Members III. VARIANCES A. Variance Applications B. The Questions to be Answered C. Orders 1. Explaining the Findings 2. Duration 3. Conditions D. Interim Variances E. Emergency Variances F. Variance Variations 1....

Pa. DEP to Help Auto-Body Shops Comply With New Air-Quality Regulations.
HARRISBURG, Pa., March 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Pa. Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) Secretary James M. Seif today announced two initiatives to help the Commonwealth's auto-body shops comply with a new air-quality regulation. DEP has awarded a four-year $500,000 grant to the Pennsylvania College of Technology...

The failure of EPA's water quality reforms: from environment-enhancing competition to uniformity and polluter profits.
Since 1970, pollution control in the United States has centered on national level regulatory approaches built on federal command-and-control regimes. Enacted in reaction to well-publicized "failures" of markets, common law, and state and local regulation such as the "killer smogs" of the 1950s and 1960s (1) and the "burning"...

California's AB 1493: trendsetting or setting ourselves up to fail?
On July 22, 2002, California's state legislature courageously stepped deeper into the national economic and political minefield of automobile emissions regulation. California once again thrust itself into the forefront of environmental legislation by enacting Assembly Bill 1493 (AB 1493), a law directly aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions from...

Shifting sands: the limits of science in setting risk standards.
INTRODUCTION I. SCIENCE AND SETTING RISK STANDARDS A. "Listen to the Science:" EPA 's Use of Science as a Policy Rationale B. Standard Setting, Science, and the Management of Risk C. The Clean Air Act and the Problem of Non-Threshold Pollutants II. THE ABANDONMENT OF REASON IN EPA's AIR...

Agricultural dust can be more accurately measured.
Agricultural dust isn't as serious a potential health problem as previously thought, according to an Agricultural Research Service scientist who has found a more accurate way to measure dust pollution from agricultural operations. ASAE member and agricultural engineer Michael Buser and colleagues at the ARS Cropping Systems...

Paradise delayed - the continuing sage of the Los Angeles Basin Federal Clean Air Implementation Plan.
I. INTRODUCTION It should not be surprising that the Clean Air Act is stressed to its limit when it faces the worst air-pollution in the country -- that found in the Los Angeles Basin. There, an automobile culture, unfavorable meteorology, substantial population, and extensive manufacturing base are...

Free and green: a new approach to environmental protection.
I. INTRODUCTION There has been substantial environmental progress over the past several decades. Air and water quality, in particular, have improved, while the United States and other nations have reached unprecedented levels of prosperity. The apparent environmental successes of the past thirty to forty years, however, should...