I. Background and Context
Two Minnesota statutes, both adopted in the early 1970s, were intended to establish bedrock protections for Minnesota's environment. The first is the Minnesota Environmental Policy Act (MEPA) of 1973, considered the state's little NEPA [in reference to the National Environmental Policy Act2]. The second is the Minnesota Environmental Rights Act (MERA), which establishes a general claim for environmental degradation.
I. Introduction
This Article addresses the "accountability gap" in foreign investment projects and proposes the creation of a Foreign Investor Accountability Mechanism (the Mechanism) to ensure that multinational enterprises (MNEs) may be held accountable to the social and environmental standards to which they have agreed.
Editors' Summary
Editors' Summary
Editors' Summary
I. International Activities
During 2009, China's primary work on environmental law concerned international law on climate change before and during the United Nations (U.N.) Climate Change Conference 2009 in Copenhagen (Copenhagen Conference).
Editors' Summary
Editors' Summary:
Section 115 of the CAA, addressing international air pollution, has been widely dismissed as a viable avenue for mitigation of GHGs because of a misplaced assumption that NAAQS must be established for GHGs before §115 authority can be exercised for GHGs. This Article explores the statutory language and legislative history of §115 to refute this conventional view, and argues that §115 can play a role in facilitating the establishment of a cap-and-trade program for GHGs without the establishment of NAAQS for GHGs.