is discussed as well as its relationship to regulation. Attention is also paid to the necessity to combine liability and … regulation and to the environmental liability directive. Conditions for the insurability of environmental harm are discussed and … compensation funds. Also, arguments in favour of harmonization of environmental liability are critically discussed …

distortions in environmental liability sharing between firms and insurance companies that the imperfect implementation of …. We characterize cases where the efficient liability sharing factor is above or below its full information perfect … implementation level. We derive comparative statics results indicating how sensitive the liability sharing factor is to changes in …

scheme. The proposed Australian Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme is discussed briefly to outline the essential features of …

This paper studies whether firms shift some pollution from regulated reporting facilities to their non … document that the increase in pollution is more pronounced in counties with weaker regulatory constraints on pollution shifting … and low socioeconomic communities. Finally, I provide some evidence for the broad societal impact of pollution shifting …

determining natural resource damages (NRD) under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 … (CERCLA) and the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (OPA). Beginning with the D.C. Circuit opinion in Ohio v. Department of Interior … great extent, this debate has taken place on a general and abstract level. Instead of examining the theory of natural …

This book chapter presents the basics of U.S. environmental law on pollution control. It is intended for non … environmental problems. It addresses the essentials of federal U.S. air pollution law, water pollution law, soil pollution …

This paper deconstructs the relationship between harm and pollution, and argues that understanding this relationship … pollutants, even when reducing the total amount of pollution is impractical or impossible. The key is to match up legal tools …

the pollution either through assignment and enforcement of full liability -- Polluter Pays Principles and, then pass these … demolished the full liability doctrine and suggested an intermediate liability dogma. The first Section demonstrates that the …. In the second Section, a theoretical framework and a flexible empirical methodology for measuring the degree of liability …