Environmental Enforcement in Dire Straits: There Is No Protection for Nothing and No Data for Free

August 2011
Citation:
41
ELR 10679
Issue
8
Author
Victor B. Flatt and Paul M. Collins Jr.

While much of the world debates what our environmental laws should be, the less esoteric question of whether the environmental laws we already have are being properly enforced continues to be insufficiently examined. As we approach the fortieth anniversary of modern environmental law, the answer to this “$64 billion question” still is not clear.

Victor B. Flatt is the Tom & Elizabeth Taft Distinguished Professor in Environmental Law, and the Director of the Center for Law, Environment, Adaptation, and Resources (CLEAR), at the University of North Carolina School of Law. Paul M. Collins Jr. is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of North Texas.

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