Recent Cases
Pillars:
- National Laws that Establish Minimum Standards to Address Nationwide Problems
- Cooperative Sharing of Federal Power with the States
- Ample Latitude for State and Local Governments to Experiment and Innovate
- Citizen Participation in Environmental Decision-Making and Enforcement
National Laws that Establish Minimum Standards to Address Nationwide Problems
Doctrine: C
Advancing Public Health and Sustainability Through Brownfields Redevelopment in New Jersey: A Handbook for Local Officials and Communities (2010)
FULL REPORT: Designed for local officials and communities, this report discusses key strategies and resources in New Jersey for identifying brownfields, cleaning up brownfields, and identifying future uses.
Chapter One: Introduces the report and provides an overview of its scope and structure. Discusses the benefits of brownfields redevelopment and the role of municipalities in this process.
National Database on Environmental Management Systems
In response to a surge of interest in evaluating voluntary environmental management systems (EMSs) as a possible tool in public policy innovation and decision making, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) and the States--many of which are members of the Multi-State Working Group (MSWG)--launched a series of pilot projects to collect and analyze comparable, high quality data on EMSs. A wide variety of firms and other regulated organizations voluntarily provided data on the design and implementation of their EMSs, which were often based on the ISO 14001 standard.
The Next Frontier: Individual and Household Environmental Behavior
On April 22, 2005, the Environmental Law Institute co-sponsored with the Vanderbilt University Law School, Owen Graduate School of Management, and Vanderbilt Center for the Study of Religion & Culture a symposium entitled: The Next Environmental Frontier: Individual and Household Environmental Behavior. The Symposium focused on the emerging problem of individual and household environmental behavior. It reached across academic disciplines, and across the academic, policy, non-profit and business worlds to explore the current state of theory and practice.
Radiation
The Environmental Law Institute conducts research on the ways that the risks from radiation, both ionizing and non-ionizing, can be more effectively communicated, managed and mitigated. Consistent with its mission, ELI also acts as a convening forum for frank discussion about radiation related issues. A focus of our work in this area has been harmonization of chemical and radiation risk management practices. Harmonization does not mean that all problems require identical treatment.
Nanotechnology Governance: Environmental Management from a Global Perspective
May 19, 2006
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN
Co-Sponsored by the Environmental Law Institute and
the Vanderbilt Center for Environmental Management Studies
Left to right: Michael Lesnick (Meridian Institute), Leslie Carothers (ELI), Mark Cohen (VCEMS)
Big Data: A Game Changer for Environmental Managers, Advocates and Regulators?
Conference Materials
Presentations
Introduction to "Big Data" (and Friends), Stephen Harper, Global Director of Environment and Energy Policy, Intel Corporation
A Community Guide to Using Alternative Dispute Resolution to Secure Environmental Justice
May 2011
This handbook is a compilation of materials developed for Using Environmental Laws and Alternative Dispute Resolution to Address Environmental Justice, a project funded by the U.S. EPA Office of Environmental Justice under assistance agreement No. TJ-83300001. The views expressed herein should not be attributed to EPA, nor should any official endorsement be inferred.