Nature's Harvest or Man's Profit: Environmental Shortcuts in the Deregulation of Genetically Modified Crops
Date
2011
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Texas Tech Law Review
Abstract
Discusses how National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) violations prevail within the USDA's deregulation of GM crops. Details how no specific statutory scheme exists other than operation within the already existing scheme of NEPA while avoiding excessive regulation.
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Deregulation of biotechnology in agriculture, Emergence of U.S. biotechnology industry and policy, Impacts of genetic modification in agriculture, Public responses to biotechnology, Environmental concerns of biotechnology in agriculture, Environmental Assessment (EA) v. Environmental Impact Statement (EIS), Monsanto v. Geertson Seed Farms, When regulation began to fail by failing to begin, Procedural skeletons and substantive voids, Center for Food Safety v. Vilsack, Regulating modified crops with both industry and environment in mind
Citation
Elizabeth G. Hill, Nature's Harvest or Man's Profit: Environmental Shortcuts in the Deregulation of Genetically Modified Crops, 44 Tex. Tech L. Rev. 353 (2011-2012)