德国《环境责任法》的基本内容和特色介评

简要论述了德国《环境责任法》的主要内容和特色 ,包括因果关系推定、无过失责任原则、受害人的咨询请求权制度以及责任保险、财务担保制度等。     

武汉市环境责任险实践评析和政策路径

在环境污染事故高发、未来全国环境政策将更多地借助于市场力量的背景下,评析了在武汉市实施环境污染责任险的必要性,分析了武汉市环境污染责任险实践中所存在的问题,并提出了未来政策改革的建议。指出近期内武汉市应主要在重点行业、饮用水源地推进政策试点,相关部门应积极配合、联合研发政策推行所需的关键支撑技术和信息平台,并积极培育政策向成熟发展所需配套的法律及政策环境。     

《环境影响评价法》第31条新解

《环境影响评价法》第31条一直是该法备受关注和饱受争议的对象,如何全面正确地认识这一条款的规定才能更好地实施和完善环境影响评价制度？通过对31条两种情形下建设单位行为的主观恶性的再分析、对照环境影响评价的价值和目的对该责任条款的再认识、对环境影响评价执法难的根源追寻等方面来探讨对31条的全新认识和补充完善。     

试论推行特种设备事故责任强制保险的必要性

随着经济和社会的飞速发展,我国特种设备安全形势严峻,社会影响恶劣。我国现有特种设备责任保险,阻碍了责任保险功能的实现。本文在全面阐释特种设备事故责任强制保险基本问题的基础上提出,特种设备事故责任强制保险,具有转移特种设备相关单位的责任风险,及时、有效地使受害者获得赔付,预防事故的发生,维护社会稳定的作用,应当成为以市场化手段辅助特种设备安全监管的有效途径。     

试析我国环境侵权民事救济制度——以广西玉林大气污染损害赔偿案为例

我国环境侵权民事救济法律制度对无过失责任的规定彼此冲突,没有规定因果关系推定原则,缺乏排除侵害的中间调整形式,引起司法实践的混乱,不利于有效保障受害人权益。针对上述问题,需要在立法作相应的完善。     

Comparing contaminated property redevelopment for mandatory and Voluntary Cleanup Programs in California

This study uses California data to compare redevelopment for properties subject to mandatory and voluntary cleanup. CalSites are subject to the CERCLA liability approach, while properties in the Voluntary Cleanup Program (VCP) are subject to a risk-based approach (RBA) that allows some contamination to remain for non-residential redevelopment. The expectation is that VCPs will show a greater proportion of industrial redevelopment, which has the least stringent standard, and a smaller proportion of residential redevelopment. The results show an overall trend toward more residential redevelopment of contaminated properties, but consistent with expectations, the trend is weaker for VCP properties than CalSites.     

对“撞了白撞”问题的思考

在《中华人民共和国道路交通安全法》公布前后有关“撞了白撞”被否决的宣传对交通安全不利。“撞了白撞”的演绎存在片面性 ,“撞了白撞”被否决的宣传不符合自然科学规律 ,存在理论上的误区。人们应该清楚的认识到 :获得交通事故损害赔偿并非获得了交通安全保障 ;行人、非机动车等交通“弱者”在一定条件下可转化为交通“强者”。对法律、法规的宣传 ,既要讲究法律原则和社会道德准则 ,也要讲究科学性。     

Examining legal rules to protect children from injuries in recreational and sport activities

Our jurisprudence assigns duties to persons to keep children safe. Under negligence law, a breach of duty causing an accident means the breaching party can be liable for damages inflicted on the injured person. Legislatures are considering new laws that reduce the damages that activity providers will need to pay to injured participants. Under some statutes, injured persons are precluded from maintaining lawsuits. In other cases, injured plaintiffs have a more stringent burden of proving liability. While activity providers may use insurance to pay for accident damages, for some injuries we might hold injured persons responsible. Four suggestions are offered as mechanisms to reduce tort litigation.     

Critical Subset Allocation: A Framework for Complex Remedial Sites

Critical subset allocation (CSA) is a methodology for allocating remediation costs at sites where multiple contaminants contribute to the exceedance of multiple regulatory risk standards. The basic unit of allocation in CSA is the critical subset, which is a subset of potentially responsible parties (PRPs) that meets two criteria: 1) the risks associated with the subset exceed at least one regulatory risk standard; and 2) at least one of the PRPs in the subset is individually necessary for the first criterion to be true. Each PRP is assigned an allocation score equal to the number of critical subsets for which that PRP is an individually necessary member. The allocation share of a PRP is equal to its allocation score divided by the sum of all PRP allocation scores.     

环境责任险试点行业定量化选取标准研究——以河南省化工行业为例

将经济规模、污染特征、国家名录制定、国家行业政策、环境风险事故5个方面作为行业选取的影响因素进行分析,构建了行业选取的定量化指标体系,采用层次分析法对权重进行赋值,并制定了不同指标等级判别标准。同时以河南省化工行业为实例进行了细类行业的选取研究,并进一步制定15个行业清单,建议其作为河南省环境责任险制度的试点行业,为管理部门的精细化和针对性管理提供了科学依据。