Challenges in Multiparty Environmental Mediation
Daniel E. Louis · Pepperdine Digital Commons (Pepperdine University) · 1999
PrologueThe New York State Department of Environmental Conservation formally embarked on an alternative dispute resolution program in 1996.This followed after the 1994 gubernatorial elections when a number of state agency's were reorganized, re-engineered or were otherwise introduced to new ways of doing business to maximize resources.The sum of this effort is to offer a structure within which to negotiate environmental enforcement, compliance and permitting issues while attempting to achieve maximal gains at less cost or, alternatively, to contain costs.The New York program has led to a number of public policy disputes being resolved in ways the disputants found beneficial.The New York program is one of approximately thirteen environmental/energy dispute resolution programs existing nationally.