Professors See Risks In EPA Bid For Authority To Weigh Cumulative Effects

May 2, 2022
Correction Appended Law professors are citing a range of environmental and other laws that could provide EPA with the power to mandate consideration of cumulative impacts in permitting and other decisions though as agency lawyers ready a highly anticipated assessment of those options, the professors are warning that EPA faces major legal risks in mandating such considerations. “Of course, everything has to be with a big caveat regarding the Supreme Court,” says Rebecca Bratspies, a law professor at City...


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