Environmental Law

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EPA's IRIS Program: Evaluating the Science and Process behind Chemical Risk Assessment, Congressional Testimony (2011)
 

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Opening the Industry Playbook: Myths and Truths in the Debate over BPA Regulation (with Thomas McGarity, Matthew Shudtz, and Lena Pons) (2011)

For the last two decades, scientists have amassed evidence that bisphenol A (BPA) poses a...

 

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Hearing on The American Energy Initiative Transparency in Regulatory Analysis of Impacts on the Nation Act of 2011, (2011)
 

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Testimony of Rena Steinzor…before the U.S. House of Representatives, Energy and Commerce Committee, Subcommittee on Environment and Economics. 112th Congress, 1st Session (2011), Congressional Testimony (2011)

Environmental regulations have saved millions of lives, preventing chronic respiratory illness and heart attacks in...

 

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Lessons from the North Sea: Should "Safety Cases" Come to America?, 38 Boston College Environmental Affairs Law Review (2011)

The catastrophic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico last spring and summer has triggered...

 

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From Ship to Shore: Reforming the National Contingency Plan to Improve Protections for Oil Spill Cleanup Workers (with Rebecca Bratspies, Alyson Flournoy, Thomas McGarity, Sidney Shapiro, and Matthew Shudtz), (2010)

Eleven workers died on April 20, 2010, when the Deepwater Horizon oil drilling platform exploded...

 

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Corrective Lenses for IRIS: Additional Reforms to Improve EPA's Integrated Risk Information System (with Wendy Wagner, Lena Pons, and Matthew Shudtz), (2010)

The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) is the most important toxicological...

 

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Regulatory Blowout: How Regulatory Failures Made the BP Disaster Possible, and How the System Can Be Fixed to Avoid a Recurrence (with Alyson Flournoy, William Andreen, Rebecca Bratspies, Holly Doremus, Victor Flatt, Robert Glicksman, Joel Mintz, Daniel Rohlf, Amy Sinden, Joseph Tomain, Sandra Zellmer, and James Goodwin), (2010)

The BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is destined to take its place...

 

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The Constitution and Our Debt to the Future, Beyond Environmental Law: Policy Proposals for a Better Environmental Future (2010)

Health and safety laws have always been justified as manifestations of congressional authority to regulate...

 

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Workers at Risk: Regulatory Dysfunction at OSHA (with Thomas McGarity, Sidney A. Shapiro, and Matthew Shudtz), (2010)

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration was born with a heavy load to bear –...

 

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A Return to Common Sense: Protecting Health, Safety, and the Environment Through 'Pragmatic Regulatory Impact Analysis' (with Amy Sinden, Sidney Shapiro, and James Goodwin), (2009)

Health and safety regulations have a more powerful impact on the quality of life in...

 

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Regulatory Dysfunction: How Insufficient Resources, Outdated Laws, and Political Interference Cripple the 'Protector Agencies' (with Sidney Shapiro and Matthew Shudtz), (2009)

In the last several years, dramatic failures of the nation’s food safety system have sickened...

 

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The Hidden Human and Environmental Costs of Regulatory Delay (with Catherine O'Neill, Amy Sinden, James Goodwin, and Ling-Yee Huang), (2009)

Each year dozens of workers are killed, thousands of children harmed, and millions of dollars...

 

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Mother Earth and Uncle Sam: How Pollution and Hollow Government Hurt our Kids, Book Gallery (2007)

In this compelling study, Rena Steinzor highlights the ways in which the government, over the...

 

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Oversight Hearing on the Federal Superfund Program's Activities to Protect Public Health, Congressional Testimony (2007)
 

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The Legacy of John Graham: Strait-Jacketing Risk Assessment, 13 Risk Policy Report, no. 21 (2006)
 

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Rescuing Science from Politics: Regulation and the Deterioration of Scientific Research (with Wendy E. Wagner) (2006)

Rescuing Science from Politics debuts chapters by the nation's leading academics in law, science, and...

 

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Will Superfund Rise Again?, 23 Environmental Forum 28 (2006)

The federal hazardous waste cleanup program and its state progency have been in decline for...

 

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A Perfect Storm: Mercury and the Bush Administration (with Lisa Heinzerling), 34 Environmental Law Reporter 10297 (2004)

In December 2003, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed a rule for mercury emissions from...

 

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A Perfect Storm: Mercury and the Bush Administration, Part II (with Lisa Heinzerling), 34 Environmental Law Reporter 10485 (2004)

The Environmental Protection Agency's recent proposal to regulate mercury emissions from power plants, and its...

 

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Bad Science (with Linda Greer), 19 The Environmental Forum 28 (2002)
 

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Toward Better Bubbles and Future Lives: A Progressive Response to the Conservative Agenda for Reforming Environmental Law, 32 Environmental Law Reporter 11421 (2002)
 

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'You Just Don't Understand!" - The Right and Left in Conversation, 32 Environmental Law Reporter 11421 (2002)
 

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EPA and Its Sisters at 30: Devolution, Revolution, or Reform?, 31 Environmental Law Reporter 11086 (2001)
 

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Myths of the Reinvented State, 29 Capital University Law Review 223 (2001)
 

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The Corruption of Civic Environmentalism, 30 Environmental Law Reporter 10909 (2000)
 

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Reinventing Environmental Regulation Through the Government Performance and Results Act: Are the States Ready for the Devolution?, 29 Environmental Law Reporter 10074 (1999)
 

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Reinventing Environmental Regulation: Back to the Past by Way of the Future, 28 Environmental Law Reporter 10361 (1998)
 

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Reinventing Environmental Regulation Via the Government Performance and Results Act: Where's the Money? (with William F. Piermattei), 28 Environmental Law Reporter 10563 (1998)
 

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In Defense of the Superfund Liability System: Matching the Diagnosis and the Cure (with Linda E. Greer), 27 Environmental Law Reporter 10286 (1997)
 

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Regulatory Reinvention and Project XL: Does the Emperor Have Any Clothes?, 26 Environmental Law Reporter 10527 (1996)
 

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The Reauthorization of Superfund: Can the Deal of the Century be Saved?, 25 Environmental Law Reporter 10016 (1995)
 

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The Reauthorizatoin of Superfund: The Public Works Alternative, 25 Environmental Law Reporter 10078 (1995)
 

Constitutional Law

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The Constitution and Our Debt to the Future, Beyond Environmental Law: Policy Proposals for a Better Environmental Future (2010)

Health and safety laws have always been justified as manifestations of congressional authority to regulate...

 

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Unfunded Environmental Mandates and the "New (New) Federalism": Devolution, Revolution, or Reform, 81 Minnesota Law Review 97 (1996)
 

Health Law

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Opening the Industry Playbook: Myths and Truths in the Debate over BPA Regulation (with Thomas McGarity, Matthew Shudtz, and Lena Pons) (2011)

For the last two decades, scientists have amassed evidence that bisphenol A (BPA) poses a...

 

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High Crimes, Not Misdemeanors: Deterring the Production of Unsafe Food, 19 Health Matrix (2010)

In the fall of 2008, Minnesota public health officials became alarmed by an unusually high...

 

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Mother Earth and Uncle Sam: How Pollution and Hollow Government Hurt our Kids, Book Gallery (2007)

In this compelling study, Rena Steinzor highlights the ways in which the government, over the...

 

Administrative Law

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EPA's IRIS Program: Evaluating the Science and Process behind Chemical Risk Assessment, Congressional Testimony (2011)
 

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The People's Agents and the Battle to Protect the American Public (with Sidney A. Shapiro), Book Gallery (2010)

Reasonable people disagree about the reach of the federal government, but there is near-universal consensus...

 

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Interim Report on the Administrative Law, Process and Procedure Project for the 21st Century, Congressional Testimony (2006)
 

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The People's Agent: Executive Branch Secrecy and Accountability in an Age of Terrorism (with Sidney A. Shapiro), 69 Law and Contemporary Problems 99 (2006)

The increase in government secrecy is an important and troubling policy trend. Although the trend...

 

Regulatory Law and Policy

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EPA's IRIS Program: Evaluating the Science and Process behind Chemical Risk Assessment, Congressional Testimony (2011)
 

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Opening the Industry Playbook: Myths and Truths in the Debate over BPA Regulation (with Thomas McGarity, Matthew Shudtz, and Lena Pons) (2011)

For the last two decades, scientists have amassed evidence that bisphenol A (BPA) poses a...

 

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Hearing on The American Energy Initiative Transparency in Regulatory Analysis of Impacts on the Nation Act of 2011, (2011)
 

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Twelve Crucial Health, Safety, and Environmental Regulations: Will the Obama Administration Finish in Time? (with Amy Sinden, Matthew Shudtz, James Goodwin, Yee Huang, and Lena Pons), (2011)

When President Obama came to the White House and put his appointees in place, they...

 

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Testimony of Rena Steinzor…before the U.S. House of Representatives, Energy and Commerce Committee, Subcommittee on Environment and Economics. 112th Congress, 1st Session (2011), Congressional Testimony (2011)

Environmental regulations have saved millions of lives, preventing chronic respiratory illness and heart attacks in...

 

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Missing the Mark in the Chesapeake Bay: a Report Card for the Phase I Watershed Implementation Plans (with William L. Andreen, Robert L. Glicksman, Yee Huang, and Shana Campbell Jones) (2011)

Momentum for Chesapeake Bay restoration has advanced significantly in the past two years, shaped by...

 

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Lessons from the North Sea: Should "Safety Cases" Come to America?, 38 Boston College Environmental Affairs Law Review (2011)

The catastrophic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico last spring and summer has triggered...

 

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The Truth About Regulation in America, 5 Harvard Law & Policy Review 323 (2011)

The special interests leading the accelerating crusade against regulation have re-ignited a potent coalition of...

 

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Nominee Jacob Lew must take a fresh look at the broken regulatory situation, Grist Magazine (2010)
 

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From Ship to Shore: Reforming the National Contingency Plan to Improve Protections for Oil Spill Cleanup Workers (with Rebecca Bratspies, Alyson Flournoy, Thomas McGarity, Sidney Shapiro, and Matthew Shudtz), (2010)

Eleven workers died on April 20, 2010, when the Deepwater Horizon oil drilling platform exploded...

 

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Regulatory Blowout: How Regulatory Failures Made the BP Disaster Possible, and How the System Can Be Fixed to Avoid a Recurrence (with Alyson Flournoy, William Andreen, Rebecca Bratspies, Holly Doremus, Victor Flatt, Robert Glicksman, Joel Mintz, Daniel Rohlf, Amy Sinden, Joseph Tomain, Sandra Zellmer, and James Goodwin), (2010)

The BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is destined to take its place...

 

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The People's Agents and the Battle to Protect the American Public (with Sidney A. Shapiro), Book Gallery (2010)

Reasonable people disagree about the reach of the federal government, but there is near-universal consensus...

 

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Workers at Risk: Regulatory Dysfunction at OSHA (with Thomas McGarity, Sidney A. Shapiro, and Matthew Shudtz), (2010)

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration was born with a heavy load to bear –...

 

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Testimony before the U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Science and Technology, Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight. 111th Congress, 1st Session (2009), Congressional Testimony (2009)
 

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A Return to Common Sense: Protecting Health, Safety, and the Environment Through 'Pragmatic Regulatory Impact Analysis' (with Amy Sinden, Sidney Shapiro, and James Goodwin), (2009)

Health and safety regulations have a more powerful impact on the quality of life in...

 

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Regulatory Dysfunction: How Insufficient Resources, Outdated Laws, and Political Interference Cripple the 'Protector Agencies' (with Sidney Shapiro and Matthew Shudtz), (2009)

In the last several years, dramatic failures of the nation’s food safety system have sickened...

 

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Rescuing Science from Politics, JD Alumni Magazine (2009)

When researchers feel the squeeze from lawsuits and government regulators, we all suffer.

 

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The Hidden Human and Environmental Costs of Regulatory Delay (with Catherine O'Neill, Amy Sinden, James Goodwin, and Ling-Yee Huang), (2009)

Each year dozens of workers are killed, thousands of children harmed, and millions of dollars...

 

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Capture, Accountability, and Regulatory Metrics (with Sidney A. Shapiro), 86 Texas Law Review 1741 (2008)
 

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The New Progressive Agenda for Protecting Public Health and the Environment (with Christopher Schroeder), (2004)

This book re-imagines federal policy in the areas of health, safety, and the environment with...

 

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Bad Science (with Linda Greer), 19 The Environmental Forum 28 (2002)
 

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Securing our Infrastructure: Private/Public Information Sharing, Congressional Testimony (2002)
 

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Myths of the Reinvented State, 29 Capital University Law Review 223 (2001)
 

Legal Education

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The Unplanned Obsolescence of American Legal Education (with Alan D. Hornstein), 75 Temple Law Review 447 (2002)
 

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Rescuing Science from Politics: Regulation and the Distortion of Scientific Research (with Wendy E. Wagner), Book Gallery (2006)

Rescuing Science from Politics debuts chapters by the nation's leading academics in law, science, and...