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Environmental litigation and the EPA : trends, costs, issues /

In 2007, the Supreme Court handed down Massachusetts v. EPA, its first pronouncement on climate change and arguably the most important environmental law decision of the past decade. This book reviews that decision, but leaves coverage of the many EPA actions based on the decision to other CRS report...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Oliver, Martin F. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Nova Publishers, [2015]
Colección:Environmental research advances series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a ENVIRONMENTAL LITIGATION AND THE EPA: TRENDS, COSTS, ISSUES; ENVIRONMENTAL LITIGATION AND THE EPA: TRENDS, COSTS, ISSUES; Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data; Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: The Supreme Court's First Climate Change Decision: Massachusetts v. EPA; Summary; EPA's Denial of the Section 202 Petition; Massachusetts v. EPA in the D.C. Circuit; Massachusetts v. EPA in the Supreme Court; Standing to Sue; The Clean Air Act Issues; Since the Supreme Court Decision; End Notes; Chapter 2: Environmental Litigation: Cases against EPA and Associated Costs over Time* 
505 8 |a Why GAO Did This StudyWhat GAO Found; Abbreviations; Background; Environmental Statutes and Lawsuits against the Federal Government; The Equal Access to Justice Act; The Number of Environmental Litigation Cases against EPA Showed No Discernible Trend over 16 Years, and Stakeholders Stated That Various Factors Affected Yearly Numbers; No Trend Was Discernible in the Number of Cases Brought against EPA from Fiscal Year 1995 through Fiscal Year 2010; Stakeholders Stated That Various Factors Influence Environmental Litigation. 
505 8 |a Available Data Indicate That Costs Associated with Environmental Litigation against EPA, including Payments to Plaintiffs, Have Varied over the Past 10 Years with No Discernible TrendOn Average, Justice Spent at Least 3.3 Million a Year Defending EPA against Environmental Litigation in Fiscal Year 1998 through Fiscal Year 2010; The Department of Justice Does Not Have a Standard Approach for Maintaining Key Data on Environmental Litigation Cases. 
505 8 |a On Average, Treasury Paid Successful Plaintiffs 1.8 Million Annually from the Judgment Fund over the Last 8 Years, and EPA Paid about 280,000 a Year over the Last 5 YearsTreasury's Judgment Fund Payments; EPA Payments; Agency Comments and Our Evaluation; Appendix I: Objectives, Scope, and Methodology; Appendix II: Key Provisions and Historical; Reporting under the Equal Access to Justice Act; Appendix III: Department of the Treasury and Environmental Protection Agency Payments; End Notes; End Notes for Appendix II. 
505 8 |a Chapter 3: Environmental Litigation: Impact of Deadline Suits on EPA's Rulemaking Is LimitedAbbreviations; Why GAO Did This Study; What GAO Recommends; What GAO Found; Background; Key Environmental Laws Allow Deadline Suits and EPA Considers Several Factors in Responding to Those Suits; Key Environmental Laws Allow Citizens to File Deadline Suits to Compel EPA Rulemaking; EPA and DOJ Consider Several Factors in Deciding Whether to Settle Deadline Suits; Settlements in Deadline Suits Established a Schedule for Issuing Rules. 
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