For decades, regulatory economists have warned that rate-of-return regulation creates perverse incentives: utilities profit from capital investment, so they “gold-plate” by overbuilding. But what…

Despite their fundamental importance, maximum contaminant level goals (MCLGs) remain overlooked in regulatory policy and litigation strategy. EPA establishes MCLGs for every contaminant under a…

This abstract, which is adapted from Michele Okoh, Forgotten Waters, 111 Geo. L.J. 723 (2022), argues that approaches to addressing access to safe drinking water must account for the…

Drinking water contamination in Flint, Michigan, has garnered much-needed nationwide attention, but such contamination is neither isolated, nor a primarily urban problem. A hidden water crisis is…

Congress enacted the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) in 1976, to regulate management of solid and hazardous waste. RCRA Subtitle C regulates hazardous waste management and Subtitle D…