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- Implications of the precuationary principle for environmental regulation in the United States: examples from the control of hazardous air pollutants in the 1990 Clean Air Act amendments. (Symposium)
- INTRODUCTION In this Article we take a cautionary approach to the Precautionary Principle. We argue that the hazardous air pollutant provisions of the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments provide an example of the Precautionary Principle incorporated into U.S. environmental legislation. Evaluating the outcome...
- Research articles 2003-09-22
- Markets for arsenic
- INTRODUCTION In 1990, North Carolina scientists testing for contaminants in the local water supply decided to use Perrier as a control sample. Clearly, they figured that Perrier would be free of the contaminants for which they were testing. They figured wrong: Perrier contained benzene. Not only that, Perrier contained benzene...
- Research articles 2002-07-01
- Tainted Soil Uproots Lives in Chatham County, Ga.
- Savannah Morning News, Ga. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 20--Annette and Frank Turner learned just months ago that an underground gasoline tank at a nearby Georgia State Patrol post had leaked for years -- spreading fuel across an area about the length of two...
- Research articles 2002-01-20
- The humbugs of the anti-regulatory movement.(myths of absurdly expensive environmental regulation)(cost-per-life)
- It is so hard to get beyond cynicism these days. Even a symposium devoted to this goal has, as reflected in the articles by Professors Cynthia Farina, Jeffrey Rachlinski, and Mark Seidenfeld, succeeded primarily in suggesting that regulators are not so much selfish as they are...
- Research articles 2002-01-01
- AIChE advocates sound science before Supreme Court
- On May 26, AIChE filed a brief in the US Supreme Court urging the justices to review a case involving the application of chemical engineering principles to a regulation developed by the US Environmental Protection Agency EPA. In late June, however, the Supreme Court announced that it had declined to...
- Research articles 1998-08-01
- Regulatory costs of mythic proportions.
- Critiques of risk regulation rely pervasively on estimates of the costs Of various federal regulations per life saved. As Professor Heinzerling illustrates in this Article, most of these estimates derive from a single source, a table prepared in the 1980s by an economist at the Office of Management and Budget,...
- Research articles 1998-05-01
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- One Big Fracking Problem for Oil and Gas Industry
- Legislation introduced this week that targets hydraulic fracturing -- a technique used to access vast new fields for drilling -- is pitting the oil and gas industry against environmentalists in a debate over public health, federal versus state regulation and the protection of industry trade secrets. Here's what the legislation also will...
- Blog posts 2009-06-11
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