Pub Date : 2022-02-01DOI: 10.1080/10406026.2021.2010363
Stephanie Sioufas
Abstract Wine products have significant environmental impacts, yet sustainable practices in the wine industry have yet to be clearly defined by regulatory bodies. In the absence of regulation, some vineyards and wineries have created their own sustainable practices. Some have turned to eco-labels to showcase their dedication to the environment. This article explores the current landscape of sustainable certifications and self-assessments accessible to vineyards within the United States.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-24DOI: 10.1080/10406026.2021.2023000
G. Saini, V. Budhwar, M. Choudhary
Abstract The aim of this review article is planning to collect, transport, processing and dispose of hazardous and non-hazardous biomedical waste, with a special concern on the biomedical waste tracking system in India. This review article sheds insight on some of the tracking systems of COVID-19 waste over the barcode, IoT, and GPS-based trash monitoring, related to COVID-19 waste management. Better waste management may reduce the amount of time that garbage is exposed to the environment and the risk of transportation. COVID-19 waste treatment facility might assist to reduce the risk of coronavirus transmission, as well as the hazardous component risk respectively.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-19DOI: 10.1080/10406026.2022.2029044
F. Adebiyi
Abstract Petroleum sector is vital in socio-economic enhancement of any petroleum producing nation as it is the leading energy producer in industrial sectors because various refined petroleum products are globally used. In process of petroleum refining, flue gases that can cause environmental degradation and eventual ill-healths are constantly been generated. This review work aims at enhancing petroleum refinery operations, alleviating flue gas emission and encouraging low-carbon perception. It condenses scattered previous studies on composition, sources, environmental impacts and benefits of flue gas in petroleum refinery. It also offers insight into handling techniques of flue gases in the industry coupled with recommendations.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-17DOI: 10.1080/10406026.2022.2028090
Alexis DeVane-Tomaino
Abstract Lessons gleaned from Earth Art can offer a fresh perspective on how to expedite the adoption of Green Energy. Drawing inspiration from several Earth Artists before focusing on the environmental review process for two Earthwork installations by the artists Christos and Jeanne-Claude, the article suggests that any environmental review process can be enhanced by an elevation of the site-specific inquiry through early engagement with local stakeholders, a reimagining of land by local governments, and a search for efficiencies and creative partnerships outside of the governmental review process.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-17DOI: 10.1080/10406026.2021.2010362
Luther Caulkins
ABSTRACT The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has embarked on an effort to implement a long dormant provision of the Federal Power Act, section 319, which could lead to broader participation by diverse and under-resourced constituencies in Commission matters. This article traces section 319’s history—its journey through Congress, swift descent into dormancy, and recent revival—and discusses several implementation choices that will affect what types of participation are facilitated by the programs section 319 authorizes. Finally, this article suggests several options for improving access to process for smaller grassroots organizations.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/10406026.2021.2024942
Howard M. Tollin
Over the past 33 years, Environmental Claims Journal (ECJ) articles have addressed environmental contaminants and exposures, environmental regulations and education, environmental liabilities and claims, technologies to reduce environmental exposures, and insurance solutions to transfer and mitigate monetary responsibility. While the Editor’s Note in the first two decades previewed ECJ’s published articles, this Note will similarly provide examples of some of the topics and information learned over the past three years. The goal of pursuing and achieving better environmental outcomes to protect our health, environment and natural resources should be universally accepted and adopted. However, as stated in last year’s Note, environmental laws and regulations are often made without regard to their clarity, practical implementation, enforcement, or economic consequences. Laws are often made for political reasons rather than being practical, effective, or enforceable. Ultimately, there are significant costs involved to comply environmental laws and regulations and for resulting injuries. These costs, which include costs for prevention, damages and losses will largely be spread among individuals, companies, governments, and environmental insurance companies. As such, individuals and companies need to be more proactive with exploring insurance solutions to transfer individual and corporate responsibility to insurance companies before the environmental issue becomes a known pollution condition or claim. To the extent any bulleted topic below is of interest, you should be able to locate the published article or articles from the past few years or please contact me.
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Pub Date : 2021-12-16DOI: 10.1080/10406026.2021.2015821
R. Michaels
Abstract Pandemic Covid-19 has exposed tension between personal choice and public health policy. Vaccination has damped pandemic inertia in the U.S., but emergence of highly infectious variants such as delta and omicron has increased infection of fully vaccinated people. This worrisome trend justifies vaccine booster eligibility and access for all vaccinated people in a timeframe responding to waning protection. In restricting booster eligibility, US FDA and CDC statements indicate failure to consider that SARS-CoV-2 might be persistent, meaning that it might remain dormant in immune-privileged “refugia” such as the central nervous system of previously infected people, even if their Covid-19 symptoms had been mild or non-existent. Opportunistic re-activation of dormant viruses can cause severe illness, as in childhood chickenpox producing adult shingles decades later. External re-infection is unnecessary. Consistent with the “precautionary principle,” the overriding FDA and CDC public health priority should be to prevent as many SARS-CoV-2 infections as possible, not tolerate them, assuming optimistically that they will not impose major public health and associated economic burdens in the future. We naturally have focused upon our tragic past losses. We also must focus upon the future, learning from Covid-19 to manage pro-actively the inevitable next pandemic.
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Pub Date : 2021-12-05DOI: 10.1080/10406026.2021.2010950
Jillian Aicher
Abstract Conservation easements can meaningfully contribute to climate change mitigation and adaptation, but to maximize their potential as a climate solution, parties must identify and overcome barriers to their effective use. These barriers include possible termination due to climate change impacts, as well as inconsistency between the restrictive nature of conservation easements and terms that include affirmative requirements to combat climate change. Currently, in New York, parties can avoid these conflicts through climate smart drafting. Additional measures that would enhance conservation easements’ use for mitigation and adaptation include: (1) Securing funding under New York’s Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act for trainings on climate smart drafting, and (2) amending New York’s conservation easement law to explicitly address climate change.
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Pub Date : 2021-11-10DOI: 10.1080/10406026.2021.2003073
I. Bennett
Abstract This article draws attention to an agency overlooked by the legal community: the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB), which investigates industrial chemical accidents and provides recommendations to reduce the risk of future accidents. The CSB was harmed by an internal scandal in 2014 and the Trump Administration more recently, but the CSB has an essential role in preventing chemical disasters. Its work is crucial, especially because climate change has increased the frequency of technological disasters caused by natural disasters (natechs), such as the Arkema plant explosion following Hurricane Harvey. This article assesses the CSB, compares its structure with like agencies in other countries, and argues that strengthening the CSB is essential to mitigating future chemical and natech disasters.
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Pub Date : 2021-09-23DOI: 10.1080/10406026.2021.1981681
A. Gershonowitz, Brian T. Kennedy
Abstract The recent Supreme Court decision in Fish and Wildlife Service v. Sierra Club presents a conflict between the public’s right to know federal agency policies and a federal agency’s interest in protecting its deliberative materials from public review. The Sierra Club claimed that the Fish and Wildlife Service was violating the Freedom of Information Act by refusing to provide biological opinions – a required analysis of the potential impact of regulations on endangered species – by marking them draft and never producing a final opinion that would be publicly available. This article analyzes the decision and explains why the agency controls the decision as to what is publicly available. It is not that the agency interest in privacy is more important than the public’s right to know; the rule is that as long as the agency is deliberating, there is not final policy to make public.
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