Deficits in EU and US mandatory environmental information disclosure : legal, comparative legal and economic facets of pollutant release inventories

Environmental law Atmospheric Protection/Air Quality Control/Air Pollution Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice Environmental pollution Environmental protection Industrial Pollution Prevention International Environmental Law Law Private International Law, International & Foreign Law, Comparative Law Public International Law sähkökirjat
Springer
2012
EISBN 9783642227578
It is the publicity about the Pollutant Release Inventory's data which creates an incentive for firms to achieve emission reductions. Accordingly, public access to environmental information constitutes a core characteristic of the aforementioned inventory. Here, in essence, two facets arise. First, with regard to the collection, it is disputed whether such information, which may comprise confidential commercial and industrial information in the EU as well as trade secrets in the US, can be protected under fundamental and constitutional property rights respectively. Second, in the context of di
