Preventing Emissions from Slipping Through the Cracks: How Collaboration on New Technologies to Detect Violations and Minimize Emissions Can Efficiently Enforce Existing Clean Air Act Regulations
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Date
2022-05-03
Authors
Caballero, Kathryn
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Publisher
University of Oregon School of Law
Abstract
The link between air pollution and poor public health is well known and has been further documented during the COVID-19 pandemic,but EPA has outdated methods and rules to detect air emissions. Enforcing existing environmental regulations presents challenges because the detection and monitoring technologies identified in the regulations, or the regulation language itself, may not sufficiently identify environmental pollution, let alone complex environmental fraud.This Article recommends that all stakeholders work together to propose new detection methods and remedial technologies that EPA may use to collect evidence for enforcement actions and to resolve noncompliance.
Description
22 pages
Keywords
Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, Clean Air Act, Environmental law, Environmental protection
Citation
37 J. Env’t. L. & Litig. 1