Environmental Law articles from March 2003

Environmental Law archives from March 2003

CERCLA: convey to a pauper and avoid cost recovery under section 107(a)(1)?
March 22, 2003... I. STATUTORY LIABILITY FOR COSTS UNDER THE COMPREHENSIVE ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSE, COMPENSATION, AND LIABILITY ACT OF 1980 A. Categories of Potentially Responsible Parties (PRPs) In 1980, Congress enacted the Comprehensive Environmental...

Trust principles as a tool for grazing reform: learning from four state cases.
March 22, 2003... I. INTRODUCTION This Article discusses four complex cases that challenge state trust land grazing programs. (1) For most of our nation's history, state trust lands have languished in an obscurity that perhaps ought to have suggested to us...

Laws governing recreational access to waters of the Columbia Basin: a survey and analysis.
March 22, 2003... I. INTRODUCTION IS floating down a stream the archetypal American experience of freedom, as in Huckleberry Finn, or an un-American violation of private property rights? It depends on which stream--and on which side you stand of the growing...

Job's plight revisited: the necessity defense and the Endangered Species Act. .
March 22, 2003... I. INTRODUCTION Behold, I cry 'Violence!' but I get no answer; I shout for help, but there is no justice. He has walled up my way so that I cannot pass; and He has put darkness on my paths. (1) Founded on absolute...

Sacrificing the Salmon: A Legal and Policy History of the Decline of the Columbia Basin Salmon.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... At the risk of starting with an awful pun, Michael Blumm, author of Sacrificing the Salmon: A Legal and Policy History of the Decline of the Columbia Basin Salmon, (2) is a powerhouse (3) when it comes to environmental and wildlife law. And...