Environmental Justice is a Civil Right
Shouldn’t it be that living in a pollution-free community is a basic right of American citizenship? Shouldn’t it be that having clean air to breathe and safe water to drink does not depend on whether...
View ArticleEnvironmental Discrimination in Richmond, California
Last week, in a blog called “Environmental Justice is a Civil Right”, I wrote about how polluting industries and the governments that enable them often choose to locate health-damaging factories among...
View ArticleLife-Saving Regulation of Toxic Power Plant Emissions Declared Invalid by...
If a new environmental regulation requiring power plants to reduce toxic emissions would prevent 11,000 premature deaths every year; prevent many thousands more illnesses every year; and produce...
View ArticleIs US Environmental Decision-Making Morally Bankrupt?
A comparison of Pope Francis’ recent encyclical on the environment, Laudato Si’, with our Supreme Court’s recent decision on power plant emissions raises troubling questions regarding the moral core of...
View ArticleWhat You Need to Know About Toxic Chemicals in Your Neighborhood – #1
Over the last 15 years, many of our environmental contamination cases have started the same way. A family gets the startling news that their water is contaminated with some toxic chemical that they’ve...
View ArticleWhat You Need to Know About Toxic Chemicals in Your Neighborhood, Part 2
Over the last 15 years, many of our environmental contamination cases have started the same way. A family gets the startling news that their water is contaminated with some toxic chemical that they’ve...
View ArticleWhat You Need to Know About Toxic Chemicals in Your Neighborhood – #3
Over the last 15 years, many of our environmental contamination cases have started the same way. A family gets the startling news that their water is contaminated with some toxic chemical that they’ve...
View ArticleSAFE, CLEAN WATER IS a HUMAN RIGHT: Why “Thirst Project” is So Important
This is about the importance of clean water to sustain health and life; how we as Americans assume (often mistakenly) that we will always have it; and an extraordinary young man named Seth Maxwell who...
View ArticleBroken Government Threatens a Safe Environment
Here’s a good example of why we don’t trust our government.1 A lawyer named Bob Sussman used to work at the Environmental Protection Agency in Washington, DC from 2009 to 2013. While he was at EPA,...
View ArticleWhat You Need to Know About Toxic Chemicals in Your Neighborhood – #4
Over the last 15 years, many of our environmental contamination cases have started the same way. A family gets the startling news that their water is contaminated with some toxic chemical that they’ve...
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All Hell Breaks Loose in Chicago: Judge Orders Release of a Videotape Showing...
This is part of an ongoing series through the end of the year where LXBN members reflect on the biggest legal development of the past five years. Today’s comes to us from Shawn Collins, author on...
View ArticlePortland Parks Director Needs to “Get” That Lead Contaminated Drinking Water...
A recent review of the Portland Parks and Recreation’s (PPR) handling of high levels of lead contamination in the drinking fountains at the Multnomah Arts Center concluded that the agency failed for...
View ArticleNaperville Residents’ “Toxic Mist” Complaints Should Be Taken Seriously
Residents in a subdivision of Naperville, Illinois, believe that their recent health complaints, and mold-like staining on their backyard patios and fencing, are being caused by a “toxic mist” spraying...
View Article“Willful” Exposure of Workers to Lead and Other Toxins Demands the Personal...
This is about how to send the right message to a company that is alleged to have willfully endangered the health of workers. The company is Fraser Shipyard of Superior, Wisconsin. The federal...
View ArticleTest Illinois Schools for Lead in Drinking Water: Protect the Kids and Stop...
Illinois legislators have an opportunity this fall to do something important and help to regain some of the public’s trust in government. They can pass a bill to test for lead in the drinking water at...
View ArticleWhat the People of Nonantum Need to KNow About TCE Vapor Contamination
For the last 17 years, I and a team of lawyers have been representing families threatened by TCE contamination in their water supply, in the groundwater underneath their homes, and in the air inside...
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GDPR实施一周年及国家监管机构职责回顾
2019年5月25日，GDPR实施已满周年，一年实施期间让众多跨境企业尤其是在欧洲市场开展业务的跨境企业如履薄冰，社会各界对于GDPR是非功过莫衷一是。周年之际，欧洲数据保护委员会发布官方周年报告First Overview On the Implementation of the GDPR and the Roles and Means of the National Supervisory...
View Article工程内部承包与挂靠的识别问题
近日某客户要求审查公司内部承包经营合同，经通读全文并与客户确认后发现，客户拟通过签署公司内部承包合同的形式，实现工程资质挂靠之实。因此，本着格物致知的精神，尽可能全面地梳理了内部承包与挂靠相关的法律规范（包括法律、法规、司法解释、地方司法性文件），以探究内部承包与挂靠的“罗生门”。 一、内部承包与挂靠的相关法律规范 《关于改革国营施工企业经营机制的若干规定》...
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1587年与1768年——A YEAR OF NO SIGNIFICANE?
万历十五年，亦即公元1587年，在西欧历史上为西班牙舰队全部出动征英的前一年，而在中国，这平平淡淡的一年中，发生了若干为历史学家所易于忽视的事件。这些事件，表面看来似末端小节，但实质上却是以前发生大事的症结，也是将在以后掀起波澜的机缘。在历史学家黄仁宇的眼中，其间的关系因果，恰为历史的重点，而我们的大历史之旅，也自此开始...... 叫魂——1768年中国妖术大恐慌 万历十五年——无关紧要的一年
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