Plachomala Case Study

Plaintiffs assert that Defendants’ chemical land farming operation near their homes that are polluting the air violates Subtitle C of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act 42 and Section 112 of the Clean Air Act. Plaintiffs contend that these human rights violations are demonstrated by the fact that, (1) the Defendants failed to operate their pollution control equipment and (2) the Defendants did not acquire a permit from the United States Environmental Protection Agency or the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality to store hazardous waste in Alsen, Louisiana.

Pollution is a major issue in many communities. It affects the local population and the number of people moving to the area, in addition to the potential workforce. If externalities result in an unsafe community, it will result in fewer residents and less economic growth. Government controls on pollution is very effective if patrolled. Many regulations are not monitored, thus companies often find ways to avoid the regulations. Government officials need to

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Sullivan, Thomas F. P, and Thomas Lynch Adams. Environmental Law Handbook. Rockville, MD.: Government Institutes, 1997. Print.

Toms River—the arrogance of companies in Ocean County, New Jersey affected the environment and human health from dumping waste, discharging acid-laced wastewater, and polluting the air and water exposed toxic chemicals that made children become at higher risk for cancer. Government negligence left these chemical companies avoid prosecution and dumping waste improperly became a common practice. The main idea from this book is the environment does impact your health significantly. Therefore, it is best when regulations are being managed and controlled. Also, studies should be approached in different ways to prove an evidence and remain open to new possibilities and exposures. The main problem in Toms River were regulations were not being enforced

Facts of the case (Summary of facts of case and its journey to Supreme Court)

The matter was presented to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT) and AAT has different views on this matter and AAT considered the historical Cases and

The world of 2015 is centralized on industrialization, and advancements that improve the manner in which a product can be produced to turn the greatest profit. While many of these improvements in speed and quantity benefits society, we cannot turn a blind eye to some of the heavy costs that are associated with this type of mass production. To address some of the issues, like pollution, governments create laws to regulate the amount of negative externalities to its citizens. In the United States, there are multiple federal agencies charged with creating the specific standards and regulations that states and large companies must adhere to. One agency in particular, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), implements and enforces some of these standards “to protect human health and the environment”(US Environmental, 2015).

Include name of parties in the case at the Court of first instance and Appellate Courts and name of Trial and Appellate judges.

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The United States’ Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) took on a significant role in environmental justice. However, there were many contradictions and blame towards the EPA for how they were going about environmental justice. The United States’ Government criticized the EPA in July 2005 for not focusing on environmental justice more, yet the authors did not explain if the government itself was supporting these issues, helping the EPA enforce any legislation passed. This situation showed how the government points fingers at other organizations for not doing “their part,” without recognizing that the government needs to change itself to help the environment. Through all of the critics, the EPA created the Toxic Release Inventory (TRI) program, which allowed citizens to have access via Internet to corporations chemical releases. This program helped environmental justice through the idea that the public should have access to information regarding the environment. Yet, the government tried to shut down the EPA’s library where the TRI was located. Therefore, the authors continued the investigation through the report on how the government views and plays a role in environmental

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A bench of the Supreme Court has in Bankura Municipality v. Lalji Raja and Sons[2] held that:

Environmental compliance obligations are monitored by the EPA, or the Environmental Protection Agency. Their basic mission is quite simplistic in that they need to protect human health and the overall environment. “EPA, state, local and tribal agencies work together to ensure compliance with environmental laws passed by Congress, state legislatures and tribal governments” (Introduction: Environmental Enforcement and Compliance, n.d.). These groups all work together to ensure

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