Environmental Law Research

Howard Chang

An Empirical Analysis of Cost Recovery in Superfund Cases: Implications for Brownfields and Joint and Several Liability, 11 J. OF EMPIRICAL LEGAL STUD. 477 (2014) (with Hilary Sigman).

Endogenous Decentralization in Federal Environmental Policies, INT'L REV. L. & ECON. 39 (2014) (with Hilary A. Sigman & Leah Goldman Traub).

The Effect of Allowing Pollution Offsets with Imperfect Enforcement, 101 AM. ECON. REV. 268 (2011) (with Hilary Sigman).

Implications of Globalization and Trade for Water Quality in Transboundary Rivers, in GLOBAL CHANGE: IMPACTS ON WATER AND FOOD SECURITY 97 (Claudia Ringler et al. eds., 2010) (with Hilary Sigman).

The Environment and Climate Change: Is International Migration Part Of the Problem Or Part Of the Solution?, 20 FORDHAM ENVTL. L. REV. 341 (2010).

The Effect of Joint and Several Liability Under Superfund on Brownfields, 27 INT'L REV. L. & ECON. 363 (2007).

Incentives to Settle Under Joint and Several Liability: An Empirical Analysis of Superfund Litigation, 29 J. LEGAL STUD. 205 (2000) (with Hilary Sigman).

Cary Coglianese

Federal Agency Use of Electronic Media in the Rulemaking Process, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 11-32.

The Law of the Test: Performance-Based Regulation and Diesel Emissions Control, 34 YALE J. ON REG. 33 (2017) (with Jennifer Nash).

The Limits of Performance-Based Regulation, 50 U. MICH. J.L. REFORM 525 (2017).

Motivating Without Mandates? The Role of Voluntary Programs in Environmental Governance, in DECISION MAKING IN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW (Lee Paddock, Robert Glicksman, & Nicholas S. Bryner eds., Elgar 2016) (with Jennifer Nash).

ACHIEVING REGULATORY EXCELLENCE (ed., Brookings 2016).

LISTENING, LEARNING, LEADING: A FRAMEWORK FOR REGULATORY EXCELLENCE [2015].

Performance Track’s Postmortem: Lessons from the Rise and Fall of EPA’s “Flagship” Voluntary Program, 38 HARV. ENVTL. L. REV. 1 (2014) (with Jennifer Nash).

Flexible Approaches to Environmental Regulation, in THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY (Michael Kraft & Sheldon Kamieniecki, eds., 2012) (with Lori S. Bennear)

Beyond Compliance: Explaining Business Participation in Voluntary Environmental Programs, in EXPLAINING COMPLIANCE: BUSINESS RESPONSES TO REGULATION (Vibeke Lehmann Nielsen and Christine Parker, eds.) (with Jonathan Borck) (2011).

Government Clubs: Theory and Evidence from Voluntary Environmental Programs, in Matthew Potoski & Aseem Prakash, eds., VOLUNTARY PROGRAMS: A CLUB THEORY APPROACH (MIT Press, 2009) (with Jennifer Nash).

Environmental Leadership Programs: Toward an Empirical Assessment of their Performance, 35 ECOLOGY L.Q. 771 (2008) (with Jonathan Borck & Jennifer Nash).

Adam Finkel

“Solution-Focused Risk Assessment”: A Proposal for The Fusion of Environmental Analysis and Action (currently undergoing peer review)

Johnson, Branden B. and Adam M. Finkel (2014). "Public Perceptions of Regulatory Costs, Their Uncertainty and Distribution." In review, Risk Analysis. [note: this pdf contains Table 7-- Major Findings-- only]

Distributional Consequences of Public Policies: An Example from the Management of Urban Vehicular Travel (March 13, 2014). Resources for the Future Discussion Paper No. 14-04; U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 14-21 (with Winston Harrington, Elena Safirova, Conrad Coleman, and Sébastien Houde).

A Cost-Benefit Interpretation of the "Substantially Similar" Hurdle in the Congressional Review Act: Can OSHA Ever Utter the E-Word (Ergonomics) Again? 63 ADMIN. L. REV. 707-784 (2011).

"Solution-Focused Risk Assessment": A Proposal for the Fusion of Environmental Analysis and Action." Human and Ecological Risk Assessment,17:754-787 (2011). Also five invited commentaries following the article (J. Clarence Davies, Bernard Goldstein, Bruce Hope, Gilbert Omenn, and Dennis Paustenbach), pp. 788-812.

Perceiving Others’ Perceptions of Risk: Still a Task for Sisyphus, 1128 ANNALS N.Y. ACAD. SCI. 121-137 (2008) (volume entitled STRATEGIES FOR RISK COMMUNICATION: EVOLUTION, EVIDENCE, EXPERIENCE).

Protecting People in Spite of—Or Thanks To—the ‘Veil of Ignorance’, in GENOMICS AND ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION: SCIENCE, ETHICS, AND LAW 290-342 (Ch. 17) (Richard R. Sharp, Gary E. Marchant, and Jamie A. Grodsky, eds., Johns Hopkins Univ. Press 2008).

Book Review, 9 J. INDUS. ECOLOGY 243 (2005) (reviewing CASS SUNSTEIN, RISK AND REASON).

"Rodent Tests Continue to Save Human Lives," Washington Times, December 12, 1994, pp. 20-22.

Jonathan Klick

Fire Suppression Policy, Weather, and Western Wildland Fire Trends: An Empirical Analysis, in WILDLIFE POLICY: LAW AND ECONOMICS PERSPECTIVES 158 (Karen M. Bradshaw & Dean Lueck, eds., RFF Press 2012). (with Jason Scott Johnston)

Mark Nevitt

Environmental Law in Military Operations, in U.S. Military Operations: Law, Policy, and Practice (Oxford Univ. Press 2015).

The National Historic Preservation Act: Preserving History, Impacting Foreign Relations?, 32 Berkeley J. Int'l L. 388 (2014).

Defending the Environment: A Mission for the World's Militaries, 36 Haw. L. Rev. 27 (2014).

Gideon Parchomovsky

The Green Option, 99 MINN. L. REV. 967 (2015) (with Endre Stavang)

Leo Strine Jr.

Our Continuing Struggle with the Idea That For-Profit Corporations Seek Profit, 47 WAKE FOREST L. REV. 135 (2012).