GBL 295 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Herbicide, Rodenticide, Safe Drinking Water Act

• School: MSU
• Department: General Business-Business Law
• Course: GBL 295
• Professor: H.Sorovigas

Document Summary

Nuisance is the unreasonable interference of another"s right to use and enjoy their property. Landowners can obtain money damages or injunctive relief for their harm and suffering. A polluting entity has failed to use reasonable care toward the injured party and the injured party"s cause of damage was foreseeable: private nuisance harm caused specifically to an individual landowner. The landowner can pursue damages against the tortfeasor: public nuisance harm has a wider effect on the general public. Ac action is considered federal whenever a federal agency has the power to control it through allocation of resources, approval or funding. Determines whether the project is feasible; documents can be used as evidence in court and should be offered for public review, objections are sent to epa. Factories, industrial plants, etc: mobile sources of pollution requires that air pollution controls are installed in all mobile sources. Illegal to dump waste into sources of water producing for human consumption.