Legal Regulation of the Remediation of Accumulated Environmental Damage at Industrial Sites in the USA
- Authors: Kolobov R.Y.1,2
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Affiliations:
- Federal Research Centre “A.E. Favorsky Irkutsk Institute of Chemistry of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences”
- Law Institute of Irkutsk State University
- Issue: No 10 (2024)
- Pages: 98-118
- Section: Ecology
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/2686-6730/article/view/266257
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.31857/S2686673024100074
- EDN: https://elibrary.ru/YVQFDR
- ID: 266257
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About the authors
R. Yu Kolobov
Federal Research Centre “A.E. Favorsky Irkutsk Institute of Chemistry of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences”; Law Institute of Irkutsk State University
Email: kolobov@gmail.com
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-1488-7530
ResearcherId: H-4644-2016
Candidate of Sciences (Law), Associate Professor, Researcher Irkutsk, Russiaт Federation; Irkutsk, Russiaт Federation
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