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Environmental Law: Government and Public Policy Towards the Environment

Environmental Science

Useful Environmental Law Terms. Abatement : The process of reducing the quantity, intensity, or saturation of a pollutant or other harmful substance by way of treatment. Many of the refugee problems of this current decade are considered the result of environmental disasters. Learn more about environmental law degrees.

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Everywhere and Forever All at Once: PFAS and the Failures of Chemicals Regulation

Legal Planet

This post was originally published on the Law & Political Economy Blog as “How Environmental Law Created a World Awash in Toxic Chemicals.” Indeed, the PFAS disaster points once again to the failure of our laws regulating toxic chemicals, which were intended to avoid just these sorts of problems.

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Deregulation, Normal Accidents, and the Airborne Toxic Event

Legal Planet

The legal and political responses to the accident have been predictable. This kind of slow violence can produce collective trauma for communities that is compounded when the government seems unsteady in its efforts to protect public health. The state of Ohio has just filed suit against Norfolk Southern.