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Main Title Environmental law and policy : nature, law, and society /
Author Plater, Zygmunt J. B.,
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Abrams, Robert H.,
Graham, Robert L.
Heinzerling, Lisa,
Wirth, David A.,
Hall, Noah D.,
Publisher Wolters Kluwer,
Year Published 2016
OCLC Number 947104300
ISBN 9781454868408; 1454868406
Subjects Environmental law--United States--Cases ; Environmental policy--United States--Case studies ; Environmental protection--United States--Case studies
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EJCM  ######## Law Library/Washington,DC 04/10/2025
Edition Fifth edition.
Collation xxxiii, 1083 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (pages xxxi-xxxiii) and index.
Contents Notes
Basic themes in environmentalism -- Cross-cutting themes in environmental law -- The common law in modern environmental law -- The special challenges of toxic tort litigation -- An overview of environmental regulation in the United States -- The administrative law of environmental law : the law of administrative agencies -- Sovereignty in the environmental law context -- Federal agency disclosure : NEPA's stop-and-think logic and the power of information -- Public planning as a management tool : governmental oversight of private & public resource use, and the challenge of adaptive management -- Roadblock statutory strategies & the Endangered Species Act : stark prohibitions and their viability -- From harm-based standards to tech-based standards : the Clean Air Act -- Technology-based standard setting : the Clean Water Act using cost-benefit analysis in agency rulemakings & review of regulations -- Market-enlisting strategies : achieving environmental protection through pollution trading and other economic incentives -- Front-end strategies : market entry controls, pollution prevention, toxic use reduction -- Remedial liability regulatory strategies : CERCLA -- Lifecycle regulatory strategies : RCRA -- Evolving patterns of enforcement and compliance -- Environmental criminal law -- Public environmental rights and duties : the public trust doctrine -- Private property and public rights : constitutional limits on physical and regulatory takings -- International and comparative environmental law.