California Surface Mining Law

California Surface Mining Law
Author: Derek Paul Cole
Publisher:
Total Pages: 229
Release: 2007-01-01
Genre: Abandoned mined lands reclamation
ISBN: 9780923956738

The first and only book that comprehensively addresses the regulation of surface mining in California. Covers federal, state, regional, and local laws and regulations along with relevant cases, and provides extensive citations. Explains mining-specific concepts and offers practical advice for understanding and complying with the law. An important resource for attorneys-whether for mining operators, public agencies, or neighborhood or environmental organizations-as well as planners, consultants, government officials, and interested members of the public.

Mining California

Mining California
Author: Andrew C. Isenberg
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2010-08-24
Genre: History
ISBN: 0374707200

An environmental History of California during the Gold Rush Between 1849 and 1874 almost $1 billion in gold was mined in California. With little available capital or labor, here's how: high-pressure water cannons washed hillsides into sluices that used mercury to trap gold but let the soil wash away; eventually more than three times the amount of earth moved to make way for the Panama Canal entered California's rivers, leaving behind twenty tons of mercury every mile—rivers overflowed their banks and valleys were flooded, the land poisoned. In the rush to wealth, the same chain of foreseeable consequences reduced California's forests and grasslands. Not since William Cronon's Nature's Metropolis has a historian so skillfully applied John Muir's insight—"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe"—to the telling of the history of the American West. Beautifully told, this is western environmental history at its finest.

California Environmental Law and Policy

California Environmental Law and Policy
Author: Albert I. Herson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 506
Release: 2017-03-28
Genre: Environmental law
ISBN: 9781938166150

The only book that covers the entire field of California environmental, land use, and natural resources law in a concise, user-friendly format. Authors Herson and Lucks have now thoroughly updated and expanded the first edition, includingSignificant updates to federal and state environmental law that occurred between 2008 and late 2016.An additional major chapter on international, national and state climate change law and policy.This book was written to serve the needs of planners, project applicants, developers, landowners, regulatory agency staff, consultants, attorneys, environmental managers, interested citizens, and students with a survey of California environmental law written for a general, non-technical audience.Written in non-technical language, the book comprehensively surveys the most important California environmental statutes and regulatory programs, as well as relevant federal environmental statutes and regulatory programs. It highlights landmark court cases and current policy issues, and provides practical tips on getting through the regulatory process successfully. To assist in more in-depth research, the book identifies sources of further information for each major program.

The Mining Law of 1872

The Mining Law of 1872
Author: Gordon Morris Bakken
Publisher: UNM Press
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2011-09-16
Genre: History
ISBN: 0826343589

History has left us a classic image of western mining in the grizzly forty-niner squatting by a clear stream sifting through gravel to reveal gold. What this slice of Western Americana does not reveal, however, is thousands of miners doing the same, their gravel washing downstream, causing the water to grow dark with debris while trout choke to death and wash ashore. Instead of the havoc wreaked upon the western landscape, we are told stories of American enterprise, ingenuity, and fortune. The General Mining Act of 1872, which declared all valuable mineral deposits on public lands to be free and open to exploration and purchase, has had a controversial impact on the western environment as, under the protection of federal law, various twentieth-century entrepreneurs have manipulated it in order to dump waste, cut timber, create resorts, and engage in a host of other activities damaging to the environment. In this in-depth analysis, legal historian Gordon Morris Bakken traces the roots of the mining law and details the way its unintended consequences have shaped western legal thought from Nome to Tombstone and how it has informed much of the lore of the settlement of the West.

Code of Federal Regulations

Code of Federal Regulations
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 830
Release: 1995
Genre: Administrative law
ISBN:

Special edition of the Federal Register, containing a codification of documents of general applicability and future effect ... with ancillaries.