Let's make a deal; cooperation, not litigation, is the newest way to clean up urban wastelands

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The brownfields movement holds that the private sector can voluntarily accomplish the environmental cleanup of some properties as part of a larger plan to render the site profitable. The EPA has developed a "Brownfields Action Agenda" which has made grants of up to $200,000 each to 76 pilot projects since 1995. The main use of the money is to estimate cleanup costs and come up with a feasible redevelopment plan. The developer or, in some cases, the city government, will do the actual cleaup and may be reimbursed by commercial tenants.

United States, Management, Practice, Urban renewal, United States. Environmental Protection Agency, Hazardous waste sites

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Made in America; law protecting Indian art stirs controversy

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The Indian Arts and Crafts Act of 1990, mandating stiff penalties for passing off counterfeit goods as Indian art, took effect in Nov 1990. The Supreme Court has held that tribal membership is solely a tribal concern and that Indians can be accorded different treatment since they are a political not a racial group. This law could cause problems for artists of American Indian extraction who are not formally affiliated with tribes.

Laws, regulations and rules, Native Americans, Protection and preservation, Native North Americans, Native American art

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Drug free

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Illinois jockeys and Navy civilians with high security clearances lost their bids to avoid random drug testing. The Seventh Circuit held that testing was justified for safety reasons, but four judges dissented. The Ninth Circuit decided that random testing was not a greater intrusion of privacy than background investigations necessary for security clearances.

Cases, Mandatory drug testing, Drug testing, Jockeys, United States. Navy, Security clearances

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