Public Comments to APA "Informal" Section 553 Rule-making are potentially very important instruments in shaping law and regulation, particularly in environmental law. However, there have been relatively few articles discussing how one should craft these comments, given the legal environment...

As an issue of global importance, this article aims to focus on the international toxic waste trade to African countries. International toxic waste trade “involves the trans-boundary movement of hazardous substances from one country to another.” Its bearing on environmental justice stems...

This paper documents the evolution of the Australasian Environmental Law Enforcement and Regulators neTwork (AELERT), through several phases, focussing on both the accomplishments and challenges encountered along the way. Commencing as a national network with five Australian foundation member...

This paper provides a summary of the author’s recent study that assessed the utility of environmental enforcement networks. The study considered fourteen current and active environmental enforcement networks, at the sub-national, national, regional and global levels, from seven countries. The...

This Article is the fifth in a series on the Clean Air Act (CAA) Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) program. The first four Articles, which appeared in the December 2005, January 2006, January 2008, and January 2011 issues of the Environmental Law Reporter, focused on baselines,...

One of the most difficult challenges facing public land managers today is how to address climate change in a meaningful way when making decisions affecting public lands. This problem is largely the product of the high levels of uncertainty surrounding climate change and the potential...

The environmental governance philosophy should evolve around the objective of sustainable inclusive growth of country which will further forester toward human environment. Corporate Governance structure should be such that the corporate can effectively partner economy growth and actively...

Given the high levels of greenhouse gases already in the atmosphere and the likelihood of growing emissions in the future, even aggressive limits on greenhouse gas emissions might ultimately fail to prevent dangerous climate disruptions. To prepare for this risk, some scientists have started to...

“Flexible regulation” might sound like an oxymoron but it has become a widely accepted catch phrase for a pragmatic approach to regulation that promises the achievement of important public policy objectives at relatively low cost. Given the growing interest in flexible regulation in recent...

This paper deals with the well-known environmental public interest litigation before the Supreme Court of India. While a certain amount of literature exists, principally describing the judicial activism in which the Supreme Court of India has engaged for many years, to date no comprehensive...