In John Grisham’s novel The Pelican Brief the reader is able to identify how our own government protects the environment. Grisham is an author of thrillers. His main characters are often lawyers confronting dangerous situations (Gale Encyclopedia). In The Pelican Brief he uses a law student that is writing a legal brief about an environmental issue. What Darby Shaw uncovered in her paper brought awareness to many Americans about the laws protecting environment from the oil industry, but also that mistakes happen. The Environmental Protection Agency was formed in 1970 under the administration of President Richard Nixon. Environmental pollution was a big concern in the 1970’s so the EPA was established to merge a variety of federal research, monitoring, standard-setting and
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Mattiece feared that two of the justices who were going to hear the case leaned towards environmentalism. Today we hear of people having many opinions about our Supreme Court Justices. Americans want them to be able to debate on what is best for our country and to be able to see the issue from many different angles. These appointed individuals understand and interpret our laws at the highest level. At the end of the day, their rulings are law and even the largest of corporations cannot change that. Mr. Mattiece felt the only way he could get the ruling in his facor was to hire an assasin to take the lives of two of the Supreme Court Justices. What Ms. Shaw thought was a paper being written about the environment, she quickly discovered that she had unearthed a web of lies. Citizens related to The Pelican Brief on April 20th, 2010 when BP had a deep water oil rig explosion (Reckdahl). This was the largest environmental disaster in the U.S (Junior Scholastic). While BP would have loved to have kept the massive leak a secret, the amounts of oil that were being leaked into the Gulf of Mexico approximately 42 miles off the coast of Louisiana could not be
Mattiece feared that two of the justices who were going to hear the case leaned towards environmentalism. Today we hear of people having many opinions about our Supreme Court Justices. Americans want them to be able to debate on what is best for our country and to be able to see the issue from many different angles. These appointed individuals understand and interpret our laws at the highest level. At the end of the day, their rulings are law and even the largest of corporations cannot change that. Mr. Mattiece felt the only way he could get the ruling in his facor was to hire an assasin to take the lives of two of the Supreme Court Justices. What Ms. Shaw thought was a paper being written about the environment, she quickly discovered that she had unearthed a web of lies. Citizens related to The Pelican Brief on April 20th, 2010 when BP had a deep water oil rig explosion (Reckdahl). This was the largest environmental disaster in the U.S (Junior Scholastic). While BP would have loved to have kept the massive leak a secret, the amounts of oil that were being leaked into the Gulf of Mexico approximately 42 miles off the coast of Louisiana could not be