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Environmental Enforcement in the Age of Trump

Is it time for a retributive turn in environmental law?

Many thought that the BP Oil Spill would lead to new environmental legislation, as happened after past environmental disasters.  That didn’t happen.  But something else did happen: BP paid $24 billion in civil and criminal penalties.   In an era where any effort at government regulation is immediately denounced as a dire threat to liberty, …

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