Gulf of Mexico Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Could Have Been Avoided Had American Regulators Used Common Sense and the Precautionary Principle - Footnotes

© 2010 Peter Free

 

[1] Ken Geiser, Establishing A General Duty of Precaution in Environmental Protection Policies in The United States, in PROTECTING PUBLIC HEALTH & THE ENVIRONMENT: IMPLEMENTING THE PRECAUTIONARY PRINCIPLE xxi, xxiii (Carolyn Raffensperger & Joel A. Tickner eds., 1999).

 

[2] See Frank B. Cross, Paradoxical Perils of the Precautionary Principle, 5 WASH. & LEE L. REV. 851, 851 (1996).

 

[3] Andrew Jordan & Timothy O'Riordan, The Precautionary Principle in Contemporary Environmental Policy and Politics, in PROTECTING PUBLIC HEALTH & THE ENVIRONMENT: IMPLEMENTING THE PRECAUTIONARY PRINCIPLE 15, 25 (Carolyn Raffensperger & Joel A. Tickner eds., 1999).

 

[4] Id. at 25.

 

[5] See generally Joel A. Tickner, A Map Toward Precautionary Decision Making, in PROTECTING PUBLIC HEALTH & ENVIRONMENT: IMPLEMENTING THE PRECAUTIONARY PRINCIPLE 162, 164 (Carolyn Raffensperger & Joel A. Tickner eds., 1999) (listing predominantly similar elements, but with less specific wording).

 

[6] Id. at 167.

 

[7] This would undoubtedly be the biggest hurdle in the United States.