STEVEN POLLACK

The Blue Eco Legal Council advocates environmentally effective remediation of hazardous waste on public lands. Leaving waste in place, dilution, or institutional controls limiting access to public lands are not environmentally effective cleanup options. Our goal is to be a watchdog over the regulatory community, litigate lapses in environmental protection on behalf of stakeholders, and to help other grass roots organizations to do the same in their communities. The marine environment is not federal property. According to U.S. Supreme Court precedent and federal law, ownership of the lake beds and ocean beds are vested in the states bordering the water, in trust, for the benefit of the state residents as beneficiaries. When federal agencies will not police themselves at federal facilities, at the expense of their responsibility to faithfully execute the law of the land, a Constitutional imbalance exists between Congress and the Executive. When courts give undue deference to federal..