Environment and Public Health in a Time of Plague

American Journal of Law & Medicine, 30 (2004): 217-36

20 Pages Posted: 3 Aug 2012

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Victoria Sutton

Texas Tech University School of Law

Date Written: 2004

Abstract

This Article examines two important features of change in the post-9-11 relationship between public health, public health law, and environmental law. The first is an immediate change in the expansion of environmental laws to address biodefense activities of surveillance and response through either executive action or congressional amendment. The second and most pervasive change is the indication of a shift in federalism in public health law, in a way analogous to the development of federal environmental law in the last half of the twentieth century. This Article begins with an examination of the indications of a shift in federalism in public health, and then turns to the changing role of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA") and the application of existing environmental laws to new problems and controversies in bioterrorism.

Keywords: public health law, environmental law, bioterrorism, surveillance, biodefense, federalism, Environmental Protection Agency

JEL Classification: K19

Suggested Citation

Sutton, Victoria, Environment and Public Health in a Time of Plague (2004). American Journal of Law & Medicine, 30 (2004): 217-36, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2123669

Victoria Sutton (Contact Author)

Texas Tech University School of Law ( email )

1802 Hartford
Lubbock, TX 79409
United States

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