I rise (or, more appropriately, write) for a point of personal privilege! I have always wanted to use that phrase, filled as it is with righteous indignation. I am indebted to Professor Edward Brunet of the Lewis and Clark Law School for giving me the opportunity to do so.

In case you just tuned in, I authored an article regarding the use of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) techniques by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in environmental enforcement cases that appeared in the March 1988 issue of this publication.¹ That article examined the need that I perceive for the use of ADR techniques in environmental enforcement, reviewed the impediments to such use, and provided a few modest proposals on how ADR might be promoted in this field.