Recent government cases

In June 2002, the Cleveland Air Toxics Working Group reached consensus on over a dozen projects that will reduce risks of air toxics posed to children, families, and adults in two of Cleveland’s urban neighborhoods.

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Across the country, two decades of effort to “get tough on crime” through increasingly strict sentencing laws, prison conditions, and parole rules have produced the highest incarceration rates in U.S. history. Since very few prisoners serve life sentences, these policies have also led to the highest prison release rates in history.

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Since 1996, the Consensus Building Institute and Environmental Mediation Services (EMS), have assisted in the cleanup of Massachusetts Military Reservation, one of the largest Superfund sites in the country.

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In January 2007, the Consensus Building Institute (CBI) lead a collaborative process to evaluate and improve the integrated functioning of the various entities that play a role in a growing Maine Town’s planning “system”. The process engaged over one hundred and fifty citizens, land owners, and professionals, and many stakeholders expressed interest in exploring additional options for educating and engaging the public in land use and other important Town governance issues.

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The Meriden Economic Resources Group hired CBI to undertake an assessment of public opinion and concerns regarding obstacles to downtown development, including flood control, transportation barriers, economic development, and more.

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The National Park Service invited Patrick Field, Managing Director of CBI, Robert Fisher, Senior Mediator at Fisher Collaborative Services, and Ona Ferguson of CBI to conduct an assessment to determine the feasibility of using a negotiated rulemaking process to manage the use of motorized vehicles on the Cape Hattera National Seashore, North Carolina.

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Since 1997, CBI has assisted the Alberta Environmental Appeal Board (EAB) to develop and refine their mediation program through training, policy analysis, and evaluation.

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CBI and Justice and Sustainability Associates have sought to prepare trainings and case studies that can benefit those seeking environmental justice across the U.S.

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CBI, in partnership with Kearns & West and Jonathan Raab of Raab Associates, Ltd., have delivered training to over two-hundred agency and stakeholder participants engaged in the relicensing of hydroelectric dams.

In August 2003, with the help of CBI, the Fire Island Off-Road Driving Regulation Negotiating Committee reached consensus on an agreement to guide the drafting of new off-road driving regulations.

CBI facilitated a two-day workshop for fishermen and scientists to evaluate discrepancies in data regarding groundfish populations in the Gulf of Maine and Georges Bank Fishery, off the eastern seaboard.

CBI has worked with the Town of Stratford, Connecticut, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) seeking to address the consequences of fifty years of the manufacturing of asbestos-lined brake shoes.

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CBI partnered with the United States Geological Survey (USGS) to prepare and deliver a one-day workshop for the agency’s Executive Leadership Team (ELT) that focused on the role of joint fact-finding (JFF) in USGS’s Science Impact program.

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In July of 2003, CBI and RESOLVE of Washington, D.C. facilitated the first ever Biosolids/Treated Sewage Sludge Research Summit.

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From 1995 to 1997, CBI assisted four towns in Western Maine tackle tough environmental pollution and public health concerns surround the area’s major employer, a large pulp and paper mill. CBI worked closely with the U.S. EPA, Region I, Maine Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), and the Maine Department of Health to assist the communities.