Many environmental issues, such as addressing climate change and encouraging sustainability, have transcended existing statutory schemes, causing regulators and scholars to evaluate alternative regulatory mechanisms. One area of focus has been the potential for using environmental management...

While enormous resources have been devoted to responding to concerns about climate change, most of the climate change initiatives to date have focused on mitigation, the reduction of greenhouse gases (GHGs), to avoid the most extreme projected climate change impacts. Progress in addressing...

Over the past twenty years, and especially since the introduction of the International Standards Organization (ISO) 14001 standard for environmental management systems (EMSs), there has been much discussion about the role EMSs could or should have in environmental compliance programs. Underlying...