Publication Date
October 2001
Abstract
This project brought together two issues that dominate policy debates in the southwestern U.S. and especially along the United States – Mexico Border; namely, environmental justice, and legal liabilities associated with adverse environmental actions. Both are major implementation problems. In the southwest the issue becomes more problematic as the two-nations meet face-to-face, and the maquiladora industry continues to expand, creating new burdens on an already stressed environment as a result of industrial practices that have not always meet U.S. environmental standards.
Comments
IPED Technical Report: 2001-11
This report was original written as a Master's Thesis:
Pursuing Environmental Justice through the Courts: An Overview of the Process and Why it has Failed
Julie Lynne Hershenberg, M.A.; with Dennis L. Soden, Ph.D.; and William Weaver, J.D., Ph.D. as project principal investigators and thesis advisors.