GreenLaw

One of the bedrock principles of environmental federalism is that States may always choose to impose stricter, more protective standards than the federal agency might choose for the same activity.  One of the key means by which environmental federalism is implemented for water quality standards is the Clean Water Act § 401 certification requirement for [...]

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David Cassuto BAILE (the Brazil-American Institute for Law & Environment) has been focusing on transboundary groundwater of late.  Prof. Romulo Sampaio and I attended a UNESCO/ISARM conference on the subject in Paris last December, where we presented a paper on the Guarani Aquifer.  We have since turned that paper into an article which has just [...]

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