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<p><b>The most trusted name in law school outlines</b>, <i>Emanuel Law Outlines</i> support your class preparation, provide reference for your outline creation, and supply a comprehensive breakdown of topic matter for your entire study process. Created by Steven Emanuel, these course outlines have been relied on by generations of law students. Each title includes both capsule and detailed versions of the critical issues and key topics you must know to master the course. Also included are exam questions with model answers, an alpha-list of cases, and a cross reference table of cases for all of the leading casebooks.</p><p><b>Emanuel Law Outline Features:</b></p><ul><li>1 outline choice among law student</li><li>Comprehensive review of all major topics</li><li>Capsule summary of all topics</li><li>Cross-reference table of cases</li><li>Time-saving format</li><li>Great for exam prep</li></ul><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p> ... Read more

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Using the proven <i>Examples & Explanations</i> format, this fully updated study guide is an invaluable supplement to any environmental law, energy law or land use course. Through liberal use of chapter cross referencing, <b>Examples & Explanations: Environmental Law, Fourth Edition,</b> helps students develop a deep and integrated understanding of the many areas in environmental law.<p class="copymedium"><b>This outstanding study guide is unique in its coverage. Its highly regarded attributes include</b></p><ul><li class="copymedium">comprehensive coverage of 20 areas of environmental, energy and land use law in 15 separate chapters that are integrated through extensive cross referencing, along with a glossary of scientific and environmental terms, a translated list of all acronyms, and a cross reference to coverage in other environmental case books</li><li class="copymedium">accessible and user-friendly structure with the text following the order of topics as they appear in most environmental law casebooks</li><li class="copymedium">detailed exploration of basic concepts, rules, acts, and agencies using the student-tested <i>Examples & Explanations</i> format</li><li class="copymedium">an approach that is especially useful for courses employing a problems and simulations model; lucid explanations draw the pieces together to give students a more complete understanding of the subject</li><li class="copymedium">in the Fourth Edition, there is more explanation of the environmental science, and an integration of scientific topics into the text at a level appropriate to law students</li><li class="copymedium">format allows the professor to bring students quickly up the learning curve and teach environmental material at a more advanced level, even in an introductory format. By providing a foundation in complex areas, professors can move on quickly to have students work on or solve the types of real-world legal issues that confront the profession today.</li><li class="copymedium">text can be used to help students find a paper topic: the student can choose a topic, then pick one of the identified legal controversies or splits in the circuits identified in the text and pursue that as an in-depth paper topic. This allows students to be more self-directing in pursuing their interests and facilitates more productive use of scarce class time.</li></ul><p class="copymedium"><b>Highlights of the Fourth Edition:</b></p><ul><li class="copymedium">more scientific explanation of the various environmental and ecological cycles and the impact of human activities on them</li><li class="copymedium">new material on global warming issues and carbon trading</li><li class="copymedium">material in the text is cross referenced with material in the leading environmental law casebooks in an easy-to-use table at the front of the book</li><li class="copymedium">greater depth of coverage on key cases</li><li class="copymedium">new coverage of recent Supreme Court, federal appellate, and leading state law cases.</li></ul><p></p><p></p> ... Read more

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International Environmental Law and Policy explores the dynamics of the lawmaking process and the increasingly critical role of transnational actors/citizens, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), scientists, and business. Discusses the relation of our scientific understanding to the legal response and the relation of the problem to the global economy. Includes explanation of the use of soft law, framework agreements, binding obligations, the precautionary principle, and polluter pays principle. Describes role of technology transfer and multilateral and bilateral financial mechanisms. ... Read more

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Best Textbook on International Environmental Law
As this book is 1550 pages long, I have not read the whole thing. But as atextbook and thanks to its clear structure it is possible to read parts ofthe book without getting lost. It is also useful to get an introductioninto a specific topic on which one might do further research. Taken intoaccount that this is a book for studying, it is almost fun to read. It isvery comprehensive and covers not only the basics of environmentalproblems, and the international environmental law itself, but also a lot ofcross cutting issues. The chosen excerpts are from the many differentinfluential scholars and practitioners and fit very good into theparticular sections.The book deals with the traditional views and theneeded basic information on international environmental law. But it alsopoints out alternative views and progressive developments in this area. Iliked in particular the introductory chapters on environmental problems andtheir relation to philosophical, development and social issues. ... Read more

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Excellent defense of politics and ethics vs. mainstream economics
It's been a while since I had the pleasure of writing so many check marks in the margins of a book. This one presents an acute critique of cost-benefit analysis (CBA) and a principled argument for the restoration of the precautionary principle (PP) to its rightful place in American environmental law. But it also makes a powerful, more general case for the importance of the political and ethical, in opposition to the pseudo-"objective" economistic trend that has been taking over government and American legal thinking generally in recent decades. And it achieves these by blending theory and concrete application, or, as the author (DK) puts it, "moving from the most abstract of continental theorizing to the most mundane of bureaucratic fish-counting" (@204).

The continental theorizing of most importance here is the ethical theory of the French philosopher & Talmud scholar, Emmanuel Levinas. He pointed out that the recognition of the "other" is the foundation of all ethics, starting from something so basic as "Thou shalt not kill." His version of ethics is thus "agent-relative," in which reasons are based on the identity of the agent, i.e. on who you are, and on a respect for the subjectivity of the person (or creature, as DK would have it) you're facing.

Champions of CBA such as Cass Sunstein, formerly a law professor at U. of Chicago and now on leave from Harvard to serve in the Obama Administration, instead promote a more "agent-neutral" position claimed by utilitarianism, where reasons are based on abstract ideas of rightness or goodness (e.g., utility maximization).They ridicule the PP as inconsistent and an obstacle to progress, preferring Sunstein's mantra that "everything will depend on what the facts show and on the costs and benefits of alternative policies." But DK shows how this in effect claims that the state "has no meaningful agency, intention or limit." (@63-64.) Moreover, a "just the facts" or maximizing approach isn't sufficient to explain why that approach is ethically the right one to take.

In contrast, the PP's openness is its strength. It "remind[s] the political community that it is a distinctive actor within history," the way that the Hippocratic Oath reminds a physician of his or her special role. Contrary to Sunstein & al.s' jibes, the PP isn't intended to serve literally as a program of action any more than is the Hippocratic principle "First, do no harm"(otherwise doctors would never stick needles into people or cut them open). Rather, both are "reminder[s] of a responsibility that cannot be shed, ethics that cannot be systematized." (@252-253.) Plus, by forcing a collective political confrontation with our own "fallibility and finitude," the PP also has an expressive force: while "trade-offs may in some sense be inevitable, as the economist reminds us," the PP reminds us that they "are *regrettably*" inevitable (@20.)

On a practical note, DK shows how the PP is *already* embodied in the great environmental statutes enacted by Congress, such as the Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act -- it's not some aspirational, utopian proposal. CBA has made its inroads by undermining Congressional intention during the regulatory process (the very process over which Sunstein is now "czar," BTW). One interesting and sad lesson of the book is that Democratic advisers -- including Sunstein and William Nordhaus (who advised Jimmy Carter) -- can be just as awful for environmental regulation as the more obvious Dick Cheney & co.

Since a "look inside" isn't available, here's a brief summary of the contents: Part 1 of the book is a rather philosophical discussion contrasting agent-relative and agent-neutral approaches to normative ethics, and their analogues in political theory: roughly, communitarianism and libertarianism. Part 2 of the book offers a more practically-focused critique of inconsistencies in application of CBA, such as in connection with the construction of levees in New Orleans. DK also highlights some of the silly and appalling conclusions to which the logic of CBA can lead, e.g., how a policy advocated by Sunstein would lead to valuing the lives of members of certain racial minorities lower than lives of other people (@114f). And he includes a powerful condemnation of "Pareto optimality" (and, by extension, CBA) as justifying the social status quo, regardless of distributive inequality. Part 3 argues that environmental law can't ignore other nations, other generations or other forms of life (including those obtained by genetic engineering). It includes an excellent discussion of the intergenerational discounting used in economic analyses of climate change. Part 4 opens with a practical application of Levinasian ethics to Harvard economist Robert Stavins's 2002 attack on proposed EPA regulations for cooling water intake structures. It concludes with a discussion of the constitutional status of environmental protection, and a deliberately provocative proposal for an "Environmental Possibilities Act," included as an Appendix.

I especially appreciated DK's resort to European philosophy, something American social scientists rarely make -- least of all in the legal academy, which today is dominated by Chicago-style "law and economics". DK is also going against the academy's grain in his attack on the welfare economics mentality. This is isomorphic in many ways to an attack on the defects of neoclassical economics overall, though DK rarely makes such an explicitly broad attack. The gist of many of DK's arguments, especially about Pareto optimality and distributive issues, will therefore be familiar if you've done some reading in heterodox economics.

DK also makes a neat point when he mentions that Teddy Roosevelt used a utilitarian argument for preferring future generations to our own -- in contrast to the utilitarian discounting of future lives recommended by mainstream economics today. TR's point was that future people way outnumber us, so their interests should prevail. An analogous flip (though not mentioned in the book) could be made regarding CBA in the context of innovation. Per Sunstein, innovation should go forward unless its costs are shown to outweigh its potential benefits; but nothing inherent in CBA prevents the burden of proof from running in the opposite direction (proving benefits will outweigh potential costs).

While DK writes in a dense style intended for an academic readership, by academic standards he often does so with deep feeling. (There's a one-line paragraph "Voilà " @ 193, though, the point of which utterly escaped me.) As for the content, my points of difference were few. DK's criticism of the "environmental Kuznets curve" was a bit restrained for my taste; and his frequent references to "complex adaptive systems" rely unnecessarily on a very particular concept of complexity (namely, the point of view of the Santa Fe Institute). I was a little frustrated DK didn't mention Theodore Porter's "Trust in Numbers" (1996), which shows that CBA was invented during the 1930s *for the specific purpose* of replacing a more open political process with a behind-closed-doors one: seems to me as if it could have added firepower to DK's critique. My biggest disagreements were with DK's endorsing some ideas of Herman Daly, concerning faith in tradable permit schemes (@246), and in the possibility of achieving some sort of equilibrium in resource use (@241). The latter is impracticable because we lack sufficient a priori knowledge to know all the resources, including environmental "services", we're using when we use them (the "Big Yellow Taxi" problem). This is all small stuff.

I reserve somewhat more criticism for the publisher. The price is high enough for a hardcover book, though YUP seems not to have published a hardcover version. Yet YUP also was too stingy with pages to include a bibliography. The index is sometimes keyed to the footnotes, but inconsistently so (and DK's reference to Robert Solow, whose apparent absence had shocked me when I first opened the book, is indexed as "Snow, Robert"): another economy, perhaps? I wish YUP's own cost-benefit analysis had had a different outcome. Especially, I hope the high price doesn't make YUP's apparent expectation of a limited readership for this book a self-fulfilling prophecy, because the book deserves a wide one. ... Read more

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The first part of the book provides an engaging discussion of the major themes and issues that cross cut environmental law. Starting with the first chapter s brief history of environmentalism in America, the second chapter goes on to explore the importance and implications of basic themes that occur in virtually all environmental conflicts, including scientific uncertainty, market failures, problems of scale, public choice theory, etc. It then presents three dominant perspectives in the field that drive policy development environmental rights, utilitarianism, and environmental justice. Chapter Three fills in the remaining legal background for understanding environmental protection, reviewing the theory of instrument choice, the basics of administrative law, core concepts in constitutional law (e.g., takings, the commerce clause), and the doctrines associated with how citizen groups shape environmental law such as standing.The second part of the book examines the substance of environmental law, with separate sections on each of the major statutes. International issues such as ozone depletion, climate change, and transboundary waste disposal are also addressed. These chapters build on the themes and conceptual framework laid down in the first part of the text in order to integrate the discussion of individual statutes into a broad portrait of the law. ... Read more

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Environmental Law and Policy is a user-friendly, concise, inexpensive treatment of environmental law. Written to be read rather than used as a reference source, the authors provide a broad conceptual overview of environmental law while also explaining the major statutes and cases. The book is intended for four audiences - students (both graduate and undergraduate) seeking a readable study guide for their environmental law and policy courses; professors who do not use casebooks (relying on their own materials or case studies) but want an integrating text for their courses or want to include conceptual materials on the major legal issues; and practicing lawyers and environmental professionals who want a concise, readable overview of the field. For the Third Edition, new chapters have been written on climate change and energy, exploring the important developments in these rapidly changing areas.The first part of the book provides an engaging discussion of the major themes and issues that cross-cut environmental law. Starting with the first chapter's brief history of environmentalism in America, the second chapter goes on to explore the importance and implications of basic themes that occur in virtually all environmental conflicts, including scientific uncertainty, market failures, problems of scale, public choice theory, etc. It then presents three dominant perspectives in the field that drive policy development - environmental rights, utilitarianism, and environmental justice. Chapter Three fills in the remaining legal background for understanding environmental protection, reviewing the theory of instrument choice, the basics of administrative law, core concepts in constitutional law (e.g., takings, the commerce clause), and the doctrines associated with how citizen groups shape environmental law (such as standing).The second part of the book examines the substance of environmental law, with separate sections on each of the major statutes. International issues such as ozone depletion, climate change, and transboundary waste disposal are also addressed. These chapters build on the themes and conceptual framework laid down in the first part of the text in order to integrate the discussion of individual statutes into a broad portrait of the law. ... Read more

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<p>As the Obama administration and the courts change the course of federal environmental law and policy, this best-selling casebook has been updated comprehensively to include the latest legal and policy developments. Each chapter includes new material exploring contemporary developments including the challenges climate change is posing to nearly every aspect of environmental law.</p><p><b>The revised Sixth Edition includes:</b></p><ul><li><b>Ten New Case Excerpts</b>, including new decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court on CERCLA, the Clean Air Act, NEPA, environmental standing and the Clean Water Act</li><li><b>Four New Problem Exercises,</b> including exercises on cap-and-trade versus a carbon tax, the application of NEPA to climate change, who should be prosecuted for criminal violations, and negotiation of a post-Kyoto regime to control greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions</li><li><b>"Midnight Regulations" </b>by the Bush administration and the Obama administration's response</li><li><b>New emphasis on Environmental Standing</b>, including the Supreme Court's Massachusetts v. EPA and Summers v. Earth Island Institute decisions</li><li><b>The new approach to CERCLA "arranger" liability and apportionment </b>embodied in the Supreme Court's Burlington Northern decision</li><li><b>EPA's new definition of "solid waste" and judicial decisions altering the agency's new source review program and programs for controlling interstate air pollution and hazardous air pollutants </b></li><li><b>EPA's Clean Air Act "Endangerment" Finding for Emissions of GHGs, reversal of the California waiver denial, and California's controls on GHG emissions from mobile sources </b></li><li><b>The relationship between the Clean Water Act's §404 and §402 permit programs</b> , including the Supreme Court's June 22, 2009 Coeur Alaska decision</li><li><b>Climate Change and NEPA</b>, including the 9th Circuit's Center for Biological Diversity v. NHTSA decision on the environmental impact of national fuel economy standards</li><li><b>Remedies for Claims of NEPA Violations</b>, including the Supreme Court's Winter v. NRDC decision</li><li><b>Climate change and the Endangered Species Act</b>, including the impact of the polar bear listing on agency consultation under §7 and §9's prohibition of "takes"</li><li><b>The latest scientific evidence concerning global warming and climate change, as well as material on the development of carbon trading markets, adaptation strategies, and carbon disclosure</b></li></ul><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p> ... Read more

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Findley and Farber's Environmental Law in a Nutshell provides a foundation for understanding environmental law. Expert text includes coverage of various areas, from acid rain and atomic energy, to waste disposal and wetlands. Touches upon the many statutory and common-law regulations shaping the world in which we live. ... Read more

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Environmental Law Stories tells the story of modern environmental law by focusing on ten of its most famous cases.Each chapter, written by a leading environmental law scholar, places the case in its broader historical context while simultaneously revealing fascinating facts concerning the people and events that prompted the litigation in the first instance, argued and decided the case in the courts, and influenced the ultimate outcome long after the judicial opinion was issued. The stories feature characters as diverse as community activists, small farmers, big businesses, dedicated scientists, skilled lawyers, strong-willed judges, and Presidents of the United States. Written for lawyers, law students, public policy professionals and laymen, each is a piece of a frame of law that is increasingly complex, and still in evolution. ... Read more

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This Nineteenth Edition references all regulatory changes made in the last two years and provides legal insight into understanding the requirements of the environmental laws. It examines all of the issues and changes that have arisen since the publication of the Nineteenth Edition. ... Read more

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A must for anyone working in environmental cleanup responses
I work for the Federal Government in the Oil Spill response funding field, and this book is a great reference.I particularly like how the book cites case law that helps me figure out how our regulations ended up being the way they are.

I also like that the book is pretty straight to the point on the topics it covers.If I remember well, the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 was explained in 100 pages or less.Some of you may think this is a lot, but it isnt.

I always buy the newest edition to ensure that I am up-to-date regarding case law.

Good Book
So far the book has proved to be very helpful in my Environmental Law class.Though the chapters where it is simply listing the law are not particularly interesting, the case studies are often very helpful.

Essential
This handbook is an essential tool to anyone in the environmental field.There are always new additions, so having a recent copy helps but it's not necessary since the environmental laws don't change that much.I would recommend getting a newer edition when a major law has passed so that the reader can understand the impact the new law will have on their community.A copy can usually be found at either the public library or a law library but there is SO MUCH information packed into this book that I highly recommend having your own copy so you can hi-light the text and bookmark the important sections that apply to your business.

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I am very blessed to have gotten it in the nick of time. I had time to read some of the book before my classes started.

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This Environmental Law Handbook has proven to be an invaluable resource to me as an environmental mediator and public involvement specialist.I use it constantly so that I can be technically sharp at work.It's dry reading, but very valuable!Paired with the Consensus Building Handbook by Susskind et al, it is the core of any environmental and public policy specialist. ... Read more

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The most detailed and nuanced,factual history of U.S. environmental laws - a limitation is lack of international perspective.
Lazarus places environmental laws in broader context, drawing on history and an extraordinaryvariety of cultural, scientific, and political details to make candid generalizations. This is unusual in a time of fragmentation and compartmentalization of U.S. academic research disciplines, as well as society,beginning in the 1960s.

Thus, for example, many textbooks on environmental policy and history and most environmental organizations tend to focus on the Scottish immigrant advocate of environmental preservation, John Muir, and Theodore Roosevelt as U.S. environmental pioneers. In contrast,Lazarus points out George Perkins Marsh's 1864 book, "Man and Nature" as the groundbreaking study of the interaction of human society with ecology. Among other things,Lazarus notes the significance of public health awareness and advances around 1900, early "municipal efforts to control pollution", the municipal zoning movement, and the enactment by Congress of the Food and Drug Act, and Meat Inspection Act in 1906.

Lazarus' unquenchable curiosity nourishes his ability, found in a minority of scholars, to use concrete detail in ways that clarify the big picture, rather than letting it confuse or obfuscate. An example is citation of the effects of DDT to control malaria by public health workers in Borneo in the 1960s.The well-intentioned efforts of public health workers caused decimation of the lizard population when they ate DDT-contaminated food. This in turn decreased the local cat population that had been dependent on lizards for much of their diet. Reduction of the cat population led to an explosion of caterpillars that destroyed the thatched roofs, and rats that spread disease within the village. In short, the story illustrates the complexity and sensitivity of ecological relationships.

The author also offers probing and significant detail on political interactions relating to environmental policy. He cites President Nixon's order to his staff to "get his administration out front on the environment" in 1969 and 1970,and the Nixon Administration's early initiatives. He also notes that in time Nixon cooled on environmental action, "becoming convinced that environmentalists were running amok".

Lazarus points out in his introduction that the 1970s environmental laws were "enormously radical" , and that in spite of intense and continuing reform efforts, these laws continue to dominate the U.S. environmental management system. He is mindful of some of the problems with current environmental law, including its patchwork nature and objections by business and other groups. However, he embraces the necessity of centralized command & control law and decries the paralysis in extension of lawmaking. Based on my own historical research (that gained valuable material from Lazarus's book) and comparisons with EU policy*,I believe the book overlooks important issues that have come into ever sharper focus since the publication of Lazarus's work.

Most important is the fact that the U.S. system remains dominated by an outdated system of labyrinthine laws enacted in response to an atmosphere of crisis more than 35 years ago. They were based on assumptions that the greatest threat to the environment came from industry, and that economic forces would overrun federal regulators if not checked. The response not only created an adversarial, rigid framework of law and regulation selectively applicable to manufacturing,other industry, and activities involving land use. The key laws gave exclusive legal standing to environmental protection (excluding economic or other values), empowered citizen enforcement, and transferred leadership roles in environmental management from professional agencies to Congress and civil courts. This politicized system is unique among advanced nations. It not only created a rift in U.S. society, but fostered subsequent hemmhoraging of U.S. manufacturing and industry, decay of infrastructure (which inevitably involves land use), and hamstrung attempts at innovation in environmental management (except in the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments). Regulatory problems are now increasingly recognized as barriers to renewable energy development.

*Manheim, The Conflict over Environmental Regulation in the United States, 2009

The Road to Protection
Here, Richard J. Lazarus has delivered a very unique look at the history of environmental law from an evolutionary or holistic perspective. This book will be a valuable resource for anyone looking for an in-depth look at environmental law as a field, but without the need for tedious policy descriptions or scientific minutiae. Lazarus covers the social and political history of environmental thought and how those phenomena shaped American environmental law as we know it. Lazarus also offers rewarding coverage of the challenges faced by concerned lawmakers in a legal system that resists long-term regulatory schemes, redistributions of costs and benefits, and scientific uncertainty. He also shows how environmental law needs to remain both heavily detailed and flexibly dynamic as the natural world and knowledge about it change over time.

This holistic approach to the law is fascinating and highly insightful, but just watch out for Part III in which Lazarus adds too much unnecessary supporting material on technical specifications (Chapter 8); and derails his unique legal history with unenlightening condemnations of American consumerism and high-speed lifestyles, complete with fairly bizarre complaints about sped-up baseball games, pre-faded jeans, and internet dating services. The tail end of the book is also stretched out with many repeated points and brief introductions of post-modern concepts like "convergence" that Lazarus fails to completely explore. But overall, despite the problematic third part of the book, Lazarus has delivered a unique summary and insightful overview of a complex topic that will be of use to both concerned citizens and researchers in a variety of disciplines. [~doomsdayer520~] ... Read more

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This outline summarizes basic black letter rules of environmental law. It outlines environmental law topics such as approaches to environmental regulations, the National Environmental Policy Act, the Clean Water Act and Clean Air Act, and toxic substances. It discusses the complex intersection of law; sciences such as biology, geology, and engineering; and important economic, ethical, and social issues. ... Read more

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The outline book is very good for studying environmental law. It covers most of important things that we need to know. This book is organized and easy to understand.

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The EPA was established to enforce the environmental laws Congress enacted during the 1970s. Yet today lethal toxins still permeate our environment, causing widespread illness and even death. Toxic Loopholes investigates these laws, and the agency charged with their enforcement, to explain why they have failed to arrest the nation's rising environmental crime wave and clean up the country's land, air, and water.This book illustrates how weak laws, legal loopholes, and regulatory negligence harm everyday people struggling to clean up their communities. It demonstrates that our current system of environmental protection pacifies the public with a false sense of security, dampens environmental activism, and erects legal barricades and bureaucratic barriers to shield powerful polluters from the wrath of their victims.After examining the corrosive economic and political forces undermining environmental law making and enforcement, the final chapters assess the potential for real improvement and the possibility of building cooperative international agreements to confront the rising tide of ecological perils threatening the entire planet. ... Read more

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Toxic Eye-Opener
Like most Americans I'd like to believe that the EPA is looking out for my health and protecting me from air and water borne hazards. I want to think that if something was really bad, it wouldn't be allowed. But if that were so, why are the reports about the continuing environmental decline of our air, water and land so frightening and heartbreaking 40 years after the formation of the EPA? Collins tells about people who have been grievously affected by the lack of protection from toxins and explains why and how they could come to be so harmed. I appreciate the accessible style of this book, with its clear explanations and understandable language while still thoroughly explaining the historical, legal and political journey that has gotten us to this state of environmental chaos, as well as his non-partisan stance that it is the system that protects environmental scofflaws and not just one party.In the last chapter, Toxic Loopholes highlights the roadblocks to a cooperative climate agreement and examines the prospects for overcoming them.In his conclusion, Toxic Loopholes speaks of the importance of adopting the precautionary principle which forces industry to bear the burden of proving that a substance is safe, instead of using the substance until it is proved that harm has been caused.As Collins asks, "Can we create a society that meets our needs without compromising the ability of future generations to do the same?"

Toxic Loopholes
In the first few pages of Toxic Loopholes the author poses 2 questions he intends to answer:"How well are our major environmental laws working?""What prevents them from achieving their stated goals?"This book provided insightful, provocative answers to both questions by examining the real life stories of communities across America trying to gain the assistance of the law and the EPA to clean up their land, air and water.

Toxic Loopholes arrives at a perfect time in history.Although the media provides more environmental coverage than ever before, most people still believe we have effective laws and government agencies that will shield them from pollution.By using real life examples and powerful facts, Toxic Loopholes convinced me that this is simply not so.This is the only book I'm aware of that thoroughly de-mystifies the environmental protection process.It clearly explains the fatal flaws in our environmental laws and exposes the extreme malfeasance of agencies like the EPA that are supposed to enforce them.

Toxic Loopholes is engaging but disturbing to read.It is full of fascinating stories with scoundrels and heroes.For example, it chronicled the courageous efforts of Robert Martin and Hugh Kaufman who used their position as EPA Ombudsman to expose the corrupt relationship between EPA bosses and corporate polluters, who were allowed to get away without cleaning up the communities they poisoned.It also revealed the vindictive response of successive EPA chiefs--like Christie Todd Whitman--who did everything in their power to silence, intimidate and eventually eliminate the Ombudsman's office after Martin and Kaufman exposed her lie that the toxic air around ground zero was safe to breathe only 3 days after the twin towers collapsed.

I was pleased that the book looked at both domestic and international efforts to protect the planet.The extensive chapter on the politics of climate change provided a comparison of several contending views on whether nations can cooperate to solve such global problems.Then it tested the validity of these views by examining two case studies: the successful ozone treaty and the floundering negotiations to prevent climate disruption.The author's conclusions were both sobering and eye-opening.

The careful research that went into Toxic Loopholes was informed by historical analysis, political theory, realpolitik, ecology, economic theory, and environmental ethics.In addition, it contained some clear-headed prescriptions for ecological improvement without pretending that our society can become ecologically sustainable unless it abandons the relentless pursuit profit and growth.

This well researched text provides readers with a systematic analysis of the history, politics, failures and occasional triumphs of our environmental laws.His discussion about the necessity of preserving biodiversity, the importance of the precautionary principle and four theories framing the prospects for global environmental cooperation were alone worth reading the text.
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International environmental law is often closer to home than we know, affecting the food we eat, the products we buy, and even the air we breathe. Drawing on more than two decades of experience as a government negotiator, consultant, and academic, Daniel Bodansky brings a real-world perspective on the processes by which international environmental law develops, and influences the behavior of state and non-state actors.

In self-contained chapters that offer a clear guide to a complex field, Bodansky answers fundamental questions about how international environmental law works. What role can law play in addressing global environmental challenges such as climate change, ozone depletion, and loss of biodiversity?How do environmental problems come onto the international agenda? What are the obstacles to international cooperation, and what can international environmental law do to address them? How do international rules develop?How are they put into practice and what makes them effective?

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How international environmental law works--and sometimes doesn't work
"The Art and Craft of International Environmental Law" is on the ROROTOKO list of cutting-edge intellectual nonfiction. Professor Bodansky's book interview ran here as the cover feature on April 19, 2010.
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Environmental Law is designed to introduce those without any legal or special scientific training to the system through which the nation attempts to preserve and protect the different aspects of our environment.

The American Legal System: The Source of Environmental Law; The Litigation Process and Other Tools for Resolving Environmental Disputes; Administrative Law and Its Impact on the Environment; An Introduction to Environmental Law and Policy; Air-Quality Control; Water-Quality Control; Controlling Toxic Substances; Waste Management and Hazardous Releases; Energy; Natural Resources; International Environmental Law

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sad shape
Although I bought this book used, I didn't realize that meant it would be falling apart. When I took it out of the envelope, there were pages falling out.They are currently being held in place by a paper clip. This was one of my first purchases on Amazon. I suppose I will need to be more weary of "used" descriptions.But I can read the book for class, so it serves its purpose.

Severely lacking
I am currently using this book for an environmental law class dedicated solely to the most important environmental legislation. Not only have a I found numerous typos in this book (ridiculous seeing as it's the 6th edition), I find that the book is only helpful if you want numerous statistics thrown at you and no real analysis of the effectiveness of American environmental legislation. The chapters are exceedingly long and usually contain nothing more than minimal information on the laws, a plethora of useless statistics, and a paragraph or two of analysis. From a student's perspective, this is probably the WORST textbook I have used in college.

astonishing
I go to Harvard law school and I have found this book to be helpful in my field of study. Although i also study criminal justice law I have now become interested in environmental and this book has been impressive. This book is a life saver. It was classy and sophisticated. Please go buy this and I hope to see some new challenging faces at Harvard. Thank you for taking the time to read this.

An Outstanding Book!
I've used "Environmental Law" by Nancy K Kubasek and Gary S. Silverman in two seated classes and one online course. It is an outstanding text for describing the parameters of our legal system to students. Those to want a glorified HAZMAT approach to environmental law (or want to ignore the legal system) might not like the book. I love it.

This is an outstanding book.
I've used this book in two seated classes and one online course on environmental law. If you want a glorified HAZMAT course or have decided that the way our legal system actually operates doesn't matter, then look elsewhere. This is not a science book (nor should it be). If you want a text that students find easy to read and that provides comprehensive coverage of environmental law and our legal system, this is your book. ... Read more

Product Description
Adopted at dozens of law schools, this book is a valuable resource for imparting practical skills. Authors Anderson and Hirsch have drawn on their wide experience as environmental law professors and practitioners to develop realistic exercises that teach the craft of environmental lawyering. Readers will learn how to bring a federal enforcement action against a polluter; negotiate a Superfund settlement; prepare documents and strategy for a citizen s suit; counsel a corporation on environmental compliance; navigate the issues that arise in government agency litigation (e.g. limits on discovery, standards of review); and comment on an EPA rule making, as well as many other relevant skills. Updated and expanded, the third edition of Environmental Law Practice is comprehensive in scope. It contains problems and exercises under each of the major environmental statutes. In addition, it places readers in the three key roles played by environmental lawyers government attorney, corporate counsel, and public interest advocate and provides practice pointers for each of these types of work. The book makes extensive use of original documents such as statutes, the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), regulatory preambles, and agency guidance, exposing students to the materials that environmental lawyers use most. This book covers the most significant areas of environmental practice: compliance, enforcement, litigation, and policy. It gives in-depth treatment of substantive environmental law areas such as the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, CERCLA, RCRA, EPCRA, and citizen suits. It incorporates current developments in environmental law, such as recent Supreme Court and circuit court cases. Of the many books on environmental law, Environmental Law Practice is one of the few to focus on environmental practice and not just the pure substantive doctrine. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (2)

enlightening
This is the most insightful book on environmental law practice I have had the pleasure to read.It helps both the layman and the practioner gain a better understanding of the field.After reading it, I have become more excited about my profession than ever.The book really brings outthe complexities and challenges of the field, while instilling a sense of the importance of environmental law for our world.

Practical Guide!
This is not really a summary of environmental law, but rather a step-by-step guide to how to research and analyze environmental law problems.Designed primarily as a problem-oriented coursebook, it would also be very helpful to anyone who is trying to wade through the morass of environmental statutes, regulations, case law, and policy statements. There are practice tips throughout, guiding you to web sites or help lines, for example.The book covers the gamut of environmental practice, including environmental compliance, enforcement, litigation and policy.Any first year environmental law firm associate would hold onto this book for dear life. ... Read more

Product Description
The Oxford Handbook of International Environmental Law takes stock of the major developments in international environmental law, while exploring the field's core assumptions and concepts, basic analytical tools, and key challenges. It is intended to serve as an authoritative and indispensable overview of the field.

Although the handbook focuses on international environmental law, it also examines the subject from a broader policy and theoretical perspective, drawing on insights from other disciplines such as political science, economics, and philosophy. It aims to strike a balance between practical preoccupations and critical or theoretical reflection. Each chapter examines an issue that is central to current scholarly debates or policy development. At the same time, The Handbook is structured as a whole to provide readers with both a 'bigger picture' of international environmental law and a more in-depth understanding of its preoccupations. This approach is particularly important at a time in the development of international environmental law when its fragmentation into increasingly specialized sub-fields obscures unifying themes and cross-cutting challenges.


The Handbook consists of 47 chapters in seven parts. Part I sets the stage for the Handbook, identifying overarching issues. Part II offers readers a range of theoretical lenses through which to analyze both the problems facing international environmental law and the solutions it may offer. Part III reviews the treatment of basic issues areas. Part IV analyzes the process of normative development in international environmental law. Part V will assess key theoretical concepts. Part VI examines the roles of various actors and institutions. And Part VII analyzes issues of implementation and enforcement.


The Oxford Handbooks Series is a major new initiative in academic publishing. Each volume offers an authoritative and state-of-the-art survey of current thinking and research in a particular subject area. Specially commissioned essays from leading international figures in the discipline give critical examinations of the progress and direction of debates. Oxford Handbooks provide scholars and graduate students with compelling new perspectives upon a wide range of subjects in the humanities and social sciences.


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