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15 Tul. Envtl. L.J. 409 (2001-2002)
Environmental ADR and Negotiated Rule and Policy Making: Critiicisms of the Institute for Environmental Conflict Resolution and the Environmental Protection Agency

handle is hein.journals/tulev15 and id is 415 raw text is: Environmental ADR and Negotiated Rule and Policy Making: Criticisms of the Institute for Environmental Conflict Resolution and the Environmental Protection Agency Matthew Patrick Clagett I. INTRODUCTION ................................................................................. 409 II. THE HISTORY OF ENVIRONMENTAL ADR ........................................ 411 A. Early Cases and Classic Examples ........................................ 411 1. Snoqualm ie River ........................................................... 411 2. Storm King Mountain and the Hudson River ............... 412 B. Legislation andAgency Implementaion ............................... 414 111. RECENT DEVELOPMENTS ................................................................. 417 A. United States Institute for Environmental Cornflct R esoluton ............................................................................... 417 B. The EPA and Its Use ofADR ................................................. 418 I . A NALYSIS .......................................................................................... 420 V CONCLUSION .................................................................................... 423 I. INTRODUCTION During the last twenty years, lawyers have increasingly turned to alternative dispute resolution (ADR) as a means to resolve environmental conflicts.' ADR developed as an alternative to conventional, and strictly formalistic, trial processes for resolving civil disputes. The field is broad, encompassing such activities as mediation, arbitration, nonlitigious negotiation, minitrials, negotiated rulemaking, etc., to name only a few.' The result has been an increasingly specialized and growing industry, * J.D. candidate 2003, Tulane Law School; B.A. History 2000, University of Michigan. 1. See Rosemary O'Leary, Tracy Yandle, & Tamilyn Moore, The State of the States in EnvironmentalDispute Resoluion, 14 OHIo ST. J. ON DIsP. RESOL. 515, 515 (2000). 2. Robert E Blomquist, Some (Mostly) Theoretical and (Very Brie) Pragmatic Observations on EnvironmentalDispute Resoluton in Ameica 34 VAL. U. L. REv. 343, 343-44 (2000). See generally EDWARD BRUNET & CHARLES CRAVER, ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION: THEADVOCATE'S PERSPECTIVE (1997). 3. Blomquist, supra note 2, at 345-47 (citing ZYGMUr J.B. PLATER ErAL., ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY: NATURE, LAW, AND SocE=Y 963-64 (2d ed. 1998)). 409

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