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Deficits in EU and US Mandatory Environmental Information Disclosure

Legal, Comparative Legal and Economic Facets of Pollutant Release Inventories

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  • © 2012

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Authors:
  1. Dirk Bünger

    1. Seevetal, Germany

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  • Initial comparison of E-PRTR & TRI First elaboration of a justification for such inventories under (comparative) constitutional law

  • Innovative realignment of environmental information disclosure with traditional environmental protection instruments

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxix
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  2. 1 Preliminaries

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    Pages 1-13

  3. 2 Development of Pollution Reduction Instruments

    • Dirk Bünger
    Pages 15-56

  4. 3 E-PRTR Under EU Environmental Information Laws: The Collection

    • Dirk Bünger
    Pages 57-232

  5. 4 TRI Under US Environmental Information Laws: The Collection

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    Pages 233-407

  6. 5 Dissemination and Utilisation of Environmental Information

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    Pages 409-439

  7. 6 Summary

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    Pages 441-450

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 451-487
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It is the publicity about the Pollutant Release Inventory’s data which creates an incentive for firms to achieve emission reductions. Accordingly, public access to environmental information constitutes a core characteristic of the aforementioned inventory. Here, in essence, two facets arise. First, with regard to the collection, it is disputed whether such information, which may comprise confidential commercial and industrial information in the EU as well as trade secrets in the US, can be protected under fundamental and constitutional property rights respectively. Second, in the context of dissemination and utilisation, it is arguable whether the information indeed impacts polluters and produces an outcome that secures a certain level of environmental protection. The author responds to the first issue by taking the EU and US jurisdictions into account and strives to analyse how this novel form of Internet disclosure liberates market mechanisms in the quest for effective and efficient emission reductions.

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  • Seevetal, Germany

    Dirk Bünger

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