Environmental Citizen Suits Against Natural Resource Companies

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of September 11, 2001, have tightened the tensions between environmental protection and natural resource development. Cries of alarm and calls to action are ringing out from the environmental camp in response to the Republicans' ascent to power in all branches of the federal government. The conflict is being waged with a variety of arms on a number of fronts from the courts, to the halls of Congress, to acts of ecoterrorism in the field. The weapon of choice in the judicial arena is the environmental citizen suit, which allows environmental groups or ordinary citizens to act as private attorneys general to sue natural resource companies and the government to enforce environmental statutes and some-

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