environmental law.
(1) State of Necessity
Hungary says they are in the state of ecological necessity. Actually, this is main argument Hungary claims throughout the whole process of the trial. They say that the project causes critical environmental problems which they didn’t expect in 1977 when they concluded the treaty. Slovakia also doesn’t deny the environmental risks that Hungary say
(1) What is material?
Certain provisions of the SEC apply only to matters that are “material” to the financial condition of the company. Therefore, interpretation and application of those provisions relates to the issue of “what is material”.
Item 101 of Regulation S-K requires that companies must disclose material effects that compliance with environmental law will have on earnings, c
(1) Commercial Banks
influential through lending practices and providing information to small and medium sized enterprises
(2) Investment Sector
can influence over large companies
(3) Insurance Sector
have influence by pricing various types of environmental risk and to help pay for environmental damages
(1) Framework to develop new services
(2) Risk management capacity
(3) Access to
Erin Brockovich found a puzzling document
Involved 648 plantiffs who were residents in Hinkley
Settled in 1996
$333 million compensation
Residents of Camp PG&E
Settled in 2006
Includes about 150 people from Hinkley who missed out on the first lawsuit
$ 295 million
“…it(water supply) is safe to use for all domestic purposes such as bathing and watering animals and plant
Environment
Total employed people are 139,064(58.4%) in 2011, the most populous job is management, professional, and related occupations (139,064) in NY. Others service occupations in US are 24,634 [Exhibition12] (Bureau of labor statistics, 2011).
In U.S. here are several organizations related in consumer. Especially, the most well known organization is U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).