The issue injects a touchy subject into the controversial realm of environmental law and policy.
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The campaigners are expected to look at whether the disposal of carcasses breaches environmental law.
Uhlmann, director of the Environmental Law and Policy Program at the University of Michigan Law School.
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In some areas the new system could even make changes harder, most notably in environmental law.
Assistant Corporation Counsel Amy McCamphill of the Environmental Law Division also worked on aspects of the case.
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Isabel Bottoms is currently studying law in Bristol with the aim of focusing on environmental law in the future.
Oliver Houck, an environmental law professor at Tulane University, said it's worth it.
"It's a tremendously difficult case, " said Emily A. Collins, a professor and supervising attorney with the University of Pittsburgh Environmental Law Clinic.
Malcolm Dowden, an environmental law specialist, points out another problem: government-sponsored flood defences in one area may shift floods downstream to other areas.
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The investigation is in response to a complaint filed by the University of Victoria's Environmental Law Centre (ELC) and the campaign group Democracy Watch.
She also served as president of the National Environmental Law Center.
Malcolm Dowden, a UK-based environmental law consultant and solicitor, had much to say on the topic in a recent issue of the UK Law Business Review.
Smith, a professor at Long Island University and an attorney specializing in environmental law -- and by formerDuring his eighteen years representing the state of Wyoming, Sen.
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In 1970, John Adams and a handful of unpaid attorneys and law students salvaged some old desks and set up an environmental law firm in New York City.
National Resources Defense Council, the question was whether the Navy had to comply with a federal environmental law protecting dolphins and other wildlife while conducting submarine exercises off California.
In a 2011 lawsuit, the Environmental Law Foundation alleged that many of those companies' foods and juices contain lead and that under California law, they are required to warn consumers.
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Over a dozen environmental groups are to unite with Kenya's churches to challenge the decree as a contravention of a recent environmental law, and as a denial of people's right to water.
The House Natural Resources Committee Thursday approved an amendment to bar new offshore oil and gas drilling permits to BP or any other company with a significant history of violating worker safety or environmental law.
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But before the U.S. Department of Transportation could grant any permits to Mexican truckers, in 2002, environmental and labor groups filed a lawsuit to block implementation on the grounds that the regulations violated U.S. environmental law.
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"We're not ready to pop the champagne corks and have a party, " said Doug Honnold, the managing attorney for Earthjustice, a non-profit environmental law firm based in Oakland, California, that has threatened to sue the government.
However, new research out today from the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL), a nonprofit environmental law organization based in DC and Geneva, indicates that chemical regulation may actually have an upside for businesses as well.
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"Our hope is that rather than put the labels on, these companies will get off their duffs and do what all their competitors are doing and just get the lead out, " said Jim Wheaton, president of the Environmental Law Foundation, a California-based environmental group.
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Society needs to consume less of everything from automobiles to air conditioning if it wants to confront climate change, according to Daniel Farber, a professor of environmental law at the University of California, Berkeley and founder of Legal Planet, while speaking today at Pace Law School in White Plains, NY.
To this list could be added programs on public health, broadcasting, publishing, transportation, telecommunications, business law, environmental problems and agriculture.
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Whether the justices rely on points of law, environmental science or economics, the facts and the statute will yield the same answer: Overturn the Ninth Circuit ruling.
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Obviously, law enforcement and environmental agencies will want to make use of drones, which will raise issues about the legalities of ubiquitous aerial surveillance.
"The pressure is very intense to begin considering clean coal technologies as an alternative, " says James Holtkamp, a partner and manager of the environmental compliance group at the law firm of Holland and Hart.
Connecticut, tests the limits of the courts to fashion a solution to a problem that is global in scale and, some would argue, already covered by the federal law establishing the Environmental Protection Agency.
No product is exempt from the law when health or environmental problems are identified.
Right now, the rules--from health regulation to environmental regulation to taxes to contract law--are uncertain.
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