Transforming Environmentalism: Warren County, PCBs, and the Origins of Environmental Justice

Transforming Environmentalism: Warren County, PCBs, and the Origins of Environmental Justice
by Eileen McGurty

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Transforming Environmentalism explores a moment central to the emergence of the environmental justice movement. In 1978, residents of predominantly African American Warren County, North Carolina, were that the state planned to build a land fill to hold forty thousand cubic yards of soil contaminated with PCBs from illegal dumping. They responded with a four-year resistance, ending in a month of protests with over 500 arrests from civil disobedience and disruptive actions.

Eileen McGurty traces the evolving approaches residents took to contest environmental racism in their community and shows how activism in Warren County spurred greater political debate and became a model for communities across the nation.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #693688 in Books
• Published on: 2009-09-11
• Released on: 2009-09-11
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .70 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 220 pages

Environmental Law: Cases and Materials

Environmental Law: Cases and Materials
by Philip Weinberg
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Environmental Law: Cases and Materials, Third Edition is designed to reflect the vital and symbiotic connection between land-use regulation and the more traditional scope of environmental law. In addition it recognizes the importance of administrative agency decision-making in environmental law.

The book begins with a look at the judicial review process of agency decisions and important issues. It examines the common-law remedy of nuisance, the matrix of so much of environmental law and still a significant cause of action, and goes on to look at land-use controls, with particular emphasis on critical areas-landmarks, wetlands, coastal resources-and the de facto taking issue. Air and water quality, waste, toxics and the other areas of comprehensive statutory control, the National Environmental Policy Act, electric generation, and the increasingly important area of international environmental law are also discussed.

Since the Third Edition was published three years ago, much has occurred in this fast-shifting field. Several important decisions have dealt with air and water quality and international issues such as global warming have expanded. The Third Edition reflects these recent events.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #744648 in Books
• Published on: 2006-02-24
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 1.37" h x 6.03" w x 8.97" l, 1.64 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 482 pages

Environmental Law: Conceptual & Functional Approach 2e (Aspen Casebooks)

Environmental Law: Conceptual & Functional Approach 2e (Aspen Casebooks)
by David M. Driesen, Robert W. Adler, Kirsten H. Engel

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Environmental Law: A Conceptual and Pragmatic Approach, Second Edition, uses illustrative cases and statutory provisions to offer a structured treatment of federal environmental law. It focuses on the core concepts and practical questions that those practicing in the field confront on a daily basis and provides students with the knowledge of the basic policy choices available while explaining the practical difficulties regulators and courts face in implementing the law.

Kirsten H. Engle joins the author team for the Second Edition, which has been expanded to include various strategies for addressing climate disruption. The new edition also includes a new chapter on ecological restoration and has been updated throughout.

This compact and accessible casebook:

• Highlights the concepts that will enable students to understand almost any part of any statutory scheme as well as to understand the statutes' basic goals.
• Facilitates a concrete understanding of the field and the overarching framework that will aid students in making sense of the details.
• Takes a more focused approach than other texts, teaching about the various ways of setting environmental goals, dealing with costs and feasibility of controls, economic incentives, traditional means of regulation, and defining the roles of federal and state governments in setting requirements.
• Is organized around the following key questions, rather than statute by statute:
  • How do we establish environmental goals?
  • What means do we use to achieve these goals?
  • How should responsibility for cleanup and cleanup decisions be allocated?
  • How should we enforce environmental law?
• Features a current unresolved environmental issue, that of how to address climate disruption, as an example that runs throughout the book to assist students in understanding how the concepts and law they are learning apply to a new issue.

The Second Edition offers:

• Discussion of a new environmental issue—various strategies to address climate disruption—that runs through the book.
• New material on the concept of restoration, which is becoming a central part of environmental law as we address already degraded ecosystems and adapt to climate disruption.
• Selected new cases and discussion of new cases in the notes and questions, emphasizing cases that help explain the book's core concepts or that significantly changed the law.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #66764 in Books
• Published on: 2011-02-08
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 1.40" h x 7.70" w x 10.20" l, 3.04 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 744 pages

International Environmental Law and Policy, 4th (University Casebook)

International Environmental Law and Policy, 4th (University Casebook)
by David Hunter, James Salzman, Durwood Zaelke

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The most widely adopted text in the field, this comprehensive, multidisciplinary casebook analyzes the major treaty regimes (with an expanded climate chapter), as well as customary law principles. It emphasizes the dynamic nature of the law-making process, including global environmental diplomacy and the expanding role of non-state actors, including scientists, NGOs, and business. It presents the binding norms of international environmental law, and explains how international cooperation facilitates and strengthens global environmental governance through setting national priorities, coordinating bilateral and multilateral science, financing, technology sharing, and capacity building.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #66119 in Books
• Published on: 2010-12-27
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 2.19" h x 7.73" w x 10.18" l, 5.26 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 1568 pages

Whose Drop Is it, Anyway: Legal Issue Surrounding Our Nation's Water Resources

Whose Drop Is it, Anyway?: Legal Issue Surrounding Our Nation's Water Resources
by Megan Baroni
Publication Date: April 16, 2012

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Water issues permeate all aspects of law, and much of what affects water is borne on the state and local level. This guide is a valuable resource and practical tool discussing the legal issues surrounding water resources and the current issues and trends that are influencing the legal regimes.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #765413 in Books
• Published on: 2012-04-16
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
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• Binding: Paperback
• 286 pages

Energy Law in a Nutshell, 2d (Nutshell Series)

Energy Law in a Nutshell, 2d (Nutshell Series)
by Joseph P. Tomain, Richard D. Cudahy

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This title addresses the component parts of the energy fuel cycle, as well as the market and government policies that oversee it. This Nutshell describe in detail the country's traditional energy policy and also discusses the current challenges that confront it. Chapters cover the individual natural resources used to produce energy and the book concludes with the development of a clean energy policy for the future.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #84600 in Books
• Published on: 2011-08-31
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 640 pages

Environmental Impact Statements Under NEPA (Environmental Law Series)

Environmental Impact Statements Under NEPA (Environmental Law Series)
LandMark Publications (Author)

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This casebook contains 182 federal court of appeals decisions that interpret and apply the regulations requiring an Environmental Impact Statement under the National Environmental Policy Act. The selection of decisions spans from 2007 through the date of publication and is organized by federal circuit. The decisions are listed in the order of frequency of citation. The most cited decisions appear higher in each section.

NEPA requires federal agencies to prepare a detailed statement on the environmental impacts of any "major Federal action[] significantly affecting the quality of the human environment." The resulting Environmental Impact Statement ("EIS") must describe "any adverse environmental effects which cannot be avoided" and rigorously explore alternatives to the proposed action. NEPA does not mandate substantive results, but it does require agencies to "take a 'hard look' at environmental consequences" and to disseminate information that allows the public to participate in the decisionmaking process,

Shenandoah Valley Network v. Capka, (4th Cir. 2012)

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #159375 in eBooks
• Published on: 2012-04-03
• Released on: 2012-04-03
• Format: Kindle eBook
• Number of items: 1