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This two-volume set guides you through all aspects of environmental disputes, including liability under federal statutes, state statutes, and common law. Individual treatment of potentially responsible parties (PRPs) is provided from manufacturers of hazardous waste to past property owners and financial institutions, plus related liability of insurers, accountants, and others. Find out who's liable, how, and why. Understand The basis for damages, allocation of damages, And The management of remedial effort. Each chapter is written by nationally recognized environmental practitioners.
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Materials on environmental degradation tend to fall into one of three types: technical, focusing on technological solutions; political, arguing the best social and economic policies; or legal, focusing on how environmental disputes or litigation can be resolved. The maze of both federal and state as well as foreign statutes in the area of environmental protection and damage control is almost overwhelming. Among US federal statutes alone there are such acts as the Clean Water Act, Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (Superfund), Hazardous Materials Transportation Act, Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act, etc. Then, of course, there are myriad federal regulations and both federal and state court cases involving environmental disputes. If it seems almost too much, it probably is. However, this handbook does a good job in explaining as clearly as possible the claims and liabilities arising from environmental litigation. In broad terms, the contents cover environmental liability; parties potentially liable for environmental damage, such as property owners, insurers, transporters, etc.; remedies; and procedural considerations. Each chapter is written by experts who are actively engaged in environmental legal issues. Inevitably, there is excessive repetition of many subtopics; helpfully, the two volumes are designed to be updated by future supplements or pocket parts included in the price. Recommended for all large academic libraries and law school libraries where students and faculty use such works as the Bureau of National Affairs' Environment Reporter (1970- ) and Toxic Law Reporter (1986- ), Edward Greer's Toxic Tort Litigation (1989 and supplements), and the many publications of the Environmental Law Institute.-T. Samore, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
