Citizen suits for civil penalties
Now More Than Ever: Environmental Citizen Suit Trends
Introduction
Environmental citizen suits matter. In 1970, borne in a fulcrum of necessity due to inadequate resources and resolve, and borrowing a bit from common-law qui tam without the bounty, the U.S. Congress...
EPCRA Citizen Suits After Steel Co. v. Citizens for a Better Environment
Editors' Summary: In March, the U.S. Supreme Court rendered its decision in Steel Co. v. Citizens for a Better Environment, 118 S. Ct. 1003, 28 ELR 20434 (1998). The Court held that an environmental group lacked standing to sue a...
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