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The U.S. used to be really dirty – environmental cleanup laws have made a huge difference
University of California/The Conversation Open-pit dumping was once common in the United States. Growing up in the 1970s, I took for granted the trash piles along the highway, tires washed up on beaches, and smog fouling city air. The famed “Crying Indian” commercial of 1971 became a symbol of widespread environmental damage across the United States. That’s why the first Earth Day on April 22, 1970, energized the nation.
The U.S. used to be really dirty – environmental cleanup laws have made a huge difference
4 hours ago In striking upgrades, Chinese battery manufacturers are making EV charging as quick as refilling a gas tank. A new battery from Chinese company CATL, the world’s largest electric vehicle battery manufacturer, can be fully recharged in under seven minutes. Charging that battery from 10% to 80%—often …
The US used to be really dirty – environmental cleanup laws have made a huge difference | The Invading Sea
By James Salzman, University of California, Santa Barbara; University of California, Los Angeles Growing up in the 1970s, I took for granted the trash piles along the highway, tires washed up on beaches, and smog fouling city air. The famed “Crying Indian” commercial of 1971 became a symbol of widespread environmental damage across the United States. That’s why the first Earth Day on April 22, 1970, energized the nation.
Opinion | Environmental Cleanup Laws Have Made a Huge Difference
Growing up in the 1970s, I took for granted the trash piles along the highway, tires washed up on beaches, and smog fouling city air. The famed âCrying Indianâ commercial of 1971 became a symbol of widespread environmental damage across the United States. Thatâs why the first Earth Day on April 22, 1970, energized the nation.
The US used to be really dirty - environmental cleanup laws have made a huge difference
Growing up in the 1970s, I took for granted the trash piles along the highway, tires washed up on beaches, and smog fouling city air. The famed “Crying Indian” commercial of 1971 became a symbol of widespread environmental damage across the United States. That’s why the first Earth Day on April 22, 1970, energized the nation.
The US used to be really dirty - environmental cleanup laws have made a huge difference Original
Growing up in the 1970s, I took for granted the trash piles along the highway, tires washed up on beaches, and smog fouling city air. The famed “Crying Indian” commercial of 1971 became a symbol of widespread environmental damage across the United States. That’s why the first Earth Day on April 22, 1970, energized the nation.
The US used to be really dirty – environmental cleanup laws have made a huge difference | Flipboard
Scientists raise concern as new findings surface about eerie global phenomenon: '[We] can't afford to ignore' The United Kingdom has not done enough to prepare for the impact of rising temperatures, and a study has shed light on the worst-case scenarios the …
The US used to be really dirty - environmental cleanup laws have made a huge difference
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Contributor: Photos of the dirty 1970s will make you appreciate the EPA
Discarded tires litter the shorefront of Baltimore Harbor in 1973. (Jim Pickerell / Documerica Project / National Archives) Growing up in the 1970s, I took for granted the trash piles along the highway, tires washed up on beaches and smog fouling city air. Such scenes are why the first Earth Day — on April 22, 1970 — energized the nation.
Photos of the dirty 1970s will make you appreciate the EPA
1 hour ago The electric vehicle industry has taken a pummeling this year. The Trump administration, as expected, reversed a whole suite of federal policies that promoted or encouraged EVs. California's ability to require the sale of EVs: gone. Federal rules about emissions and fuel economy — being rewritten. …
How To Speed Up The Green Transition & Protect The Environment
Credits J.B. Ruhl is the David Daniels Allen distinguished chair of law and director of the program on law and innovation, and co-director of the energy, environment and land use program, at the Vanderbilt University Law School. James Salzman is the Donald Bren distinguished professor of environmental law at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Will faster federal reviews speed up the clean energy shift? Two legal scholars explain what the National Environmental Policy Act does and doesn't do
By James Salzman, Professor of Environmental Law, University of California, Los Angeles The National Environmental Policy Act, enacted in 1970, is widely viewed as a keystone U.S. environmental law. For any major federal action that affects the environment, such as building an interstate highway or licensing a nuclear power plant, NEPA requires relevant agencies to analyze environmental impacts, consider reasonable alternatives and accept public input.
Will faster federal reviews speed up the clean energy shift? Two legal scholars explain what the National Environmental Policy Act does and doesn't do
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Will faster federal reviews speed up the clean energy shift? Two legal scholars explain what the National Environmental Policy Act does and doesn't do Original
The National Environmental Policy Act, enacted in 1970, is widely viewed as a keystone U.S. environmental law. For any major federal action that affects the environment, such as building an interstate highway or licensing a nuclear power plant, NEPA requires relevant agencies to analyze environmental impacts, consider reasonable alternatives and accept public input. It also allows citizens to sue if they believe government has not complied.
Will faster federal reviews speed up the clean energy shift? Two legal scholars explain what the National Environmental Policy Act does and doesn't do
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Will faster federal reviews speed up the clean energy shift? Two legal scholars explain what the National Environmental Policy Act does and doesn't do
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Mine!: How the Hidden Rules of Ownership Control Our Lives
Michael Heller and James Salzman are among the world’s leading authorities on ownership. Heller is the Lawrence A. Wien Professor of Real Estate Law at Columbia Law School. He is the author of The Gridlock Economy: How Too Much Ownership Wrecks Markets, Stops Innovation, and Costs Lives. Salzman is the Donald Bren Distinguished Professor of Environmental Law with joint appointments at the UCLA School of Law and the UCSB Bren School of the Environment. He is the author of Drinking Water: A History.
High Fashion vs. Fast Fashion: The Piracy Paradox
Weekly Newsletter The best of The Saturday Evening Post in your inbox! After a fashion designer strikes gold with a new look, knockoffs quickly appear on store shelves. For example, Carrie Anne Roberts, founder of the brand Mère Soeur, learned that Old Navy was copying her bestselling T-shirt “Raising the Future.” Says Roberts, “I was a single mom, and the idea behind this T-shirt inspired my whole business.
America’s ultra-wealthy have pulled off a brilliant heist - in South Dakota - The Washington Post
Michael Heller and James Salzman are co-authors of “Mine! How the Hidden Rules of Ownership Control Our Lives.” Heller is a professor at Columbia Law School. Salzman is a professor at UCSB Bren School of Environmental Science & Management and atUCLA Law School. Over the past pandemic year, American billionaires have grown $1.3 trillion richer, the beneficiaries of a soaring stock market. Income inequality has widened.
Who Owns the Space Behind Your Airplane Seat?
Nonfiction Credit...Yogee Chandrasekaran March 18, 2021 MINE! How the Hidden Rules of Ownership Control Our Lives By Michael A. Heller and James Salzman I once returned to my childhood home to find my father going through my collection of baseball cards, carefully calculating their value. It was as if he thought he … owned them. Seriously? I had collected them, I had cared for them, I had paid for them.
How the Salvation of New York City Drinking Water Can Be a Model for Saving the Planet
New Yorkers are rarely a soft-spoken group, particularly when boasting about their city. Time Out magazine lists 50 reasons why New York is the “greatest city in the world”—greatest skyline, greatest theater, and on and on. These brags should come as no surprise. Everyone has heard of the Empire State Building and Times Square. But you may be surprised at what the magazine lists as the number one reason New York is so great. Its drinking water. And you don’t need to take the magazine’s word for it.
12 New Books That Will Make You Smarter, According to Adam Grant
Adam Grant may be best known as the author of a series of bestsellers, but the Wharton professor and publishing industry powerhouse isn't just a writer. He's also a keen reader. And each season he takes to his LinkedIn page to offer a roundup of his top picks among new books due out in the coming months. His spring recommendations are just out.
The Hidden Rule of Ownership
This post is adapted from our new book, Mine!: How the Hidden Rules of Ownership Control Our Lives, available March 2. To learn more about the book, visit minethebook.com. The idea of ownership seems natural and beyond contest. You know what it means to own stuff, whether you're buying a new home or claiming the last slice of pie. Mine couldn't be simpler. But a lot of what you know about ownership is wrong.
Why Do We Need More Ownership to Protect the Environment?
This post is adapted from our new book, Mine!: How the Hidden Rules of Ownership Control Our Lives, available March 2. To learn more about the book, visit minethebook.com. Yesterday, we introduced Al Appleton and showed how he persuaded New York City to invest in green rather than gray infrastructure, trees instead of concrete. The result: impressively clean drinking water. Today, we explain what all this has to do with ownership.
Elon Musk Doesn’t Care About Patents. Should You?
Businesses spend a fortune on traditional engineering, tweaking every button and knob. But today’s most successful companies are also skilled at ownership engineering, or creating value by managing how products and services are owned.
The World’s Greatest Drinking Water
This post is adapted from our new book, Mine!: How the Hidden Rules of Ownership Control Our Lives, available March 2. To learn more about the book, visit minethebook.com. Credit: Wikimedia, by Kristiaan from Haarlem, The Netherlands—Bru, CC BY 2.0 New Yorkers are rarely a soft-spoken group, particularly when boasting about their city. Time Out magazine lists fifty reasons why New York is the "greatest city in the world" – greatest skyline, greatest theater, and on and on.
Knee Defenders and Virtual Laps-Part 2
Credit: Wikimedia. This post is adapted from our new book, Mine!: How the Hidden Rules of Ownership Control Our Lives, available March 2. To learn more about the book, visit minethebook.com. Yesterday, in Part 1, we introduced the Knee Defender and the three conflicting ownership stories—attachment, possession, and first-in-time—that passengers use in high-altitude fights over inches of personal space. Why are these conflicts breaking out now? There never used to be rage around reclining.
Knee Defenders and Virtual Laps-Part 1
This post is adapted from our new book, Mine!: How the Hidden Rules of Ownership Control Our Lives. Photo credit: Wikimedia. Who owns the space behind your airplane seat: you reclining or the squished laptop user behind? And who owns your online life: you clicking around or Facebook selling your most intimate data? Turns out, these puzzles are both the same puzzle and they share a single answer: you lose. The prize goes to those who know how the simple rules of ownership really work.
The US used to be really dirty - environmental cleanup laws have made a huge difference
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The global status and trends of Payments for Ecosystem Services
Recent decades have witnessed a considerable increase in Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES)—programmes that exchange value for land management practices intended to provide or ensure ecosystem services—with over 550 active programmes around the globe and an estimated US$36–42 billion in annual transactions. PES represent a recent policy instrument with often very different programmes operating at local, regional and national levels.
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The world’s strongest conservation law is under attack. It needs to be fixed instead.
The strongest conservation law enacted by any country, the Endangered Species Act, is under attack. Again. Over the past three decades, bills in every Congress have sought to weaken the act, undermining a crucial law that most Americans support. The 44-year-old law needs reform, but not like this.
Drinking Water: A History
books.google.com - When we turn on the tap or twist open a tall plastic bottle, we might not give a second thought to where our drinking water comes from. But how it gets from the ground to the glass is far more complex than we might think. With concerns over pollution and new technologies like fracking, is it safe to...
"Valuing Ecosystem Services" by James Salzman
James Salzman, Valuing Ecosystem Services, 24 Ecology L.Q. (1997). Available at: http://scholarship.law.berkeley.edu/elq/vol24/iss4/21
The greatest success in environmental law made rivers stop burning.
A river catches fire, so polluted that its waters have “no visible life, not even low forms such as leeches and sludge worms.” This could describe the mythological River Styx from Hades. Residents of Cleveland, though, may recognize the government’s assessment of their own Cuyahoga River in 1969. While hard to imagine today, discharging raw sewage and pollution into our harbors and rivers has been common practice for most of the nation’s history, with devastating results.
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