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Environmental Law Review Article

By Stuart Buck, Esq.

This looks interesting: The Sting of the Long Tail: The Problem of Delayed Harm in Environmental LawEric BiberUniversity of California, Berkeley - School of LawAugust 30, 2008UC Berkeley Public Law Research Paper No. 1261143Abstract: Many environmental harms share a characteristic feature - they occur only long after the human activity that caused them originally took place. Examples include birth defects from the drug DES, extinction of animal and plant species because of habitat destruction, the contamination of groundwater from improper hazardous waste disposal, and perhaps most importantly, changes in global climate resulting from human emissions of greenhouse gases. What is distinctive about delayed harms is that they present a particularly knotty problem for policymakers to solve...continue to full post

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