"Environmental Justice" from Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.

Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. (New Rochelle, NY), the publisher of journals and books in the areas of biotechnology, biomedical research/life sciences, clinical medicine and surgery, and law, will begin the publication of "Environmental Justice," a new journal, with an issue in early 2008. It will be published four times in 2008 and an annual individual subscription costs $189 online and $225 for both print and online access. An annual institutional subscription costs $365 online and $375 in print.

The new journal is targeted to attorneys, public health professionals, environmental planners, legislators and related industry professionals. It will focus on the legal challenges threatening and adversely affecting the health and the well being of the general populace, and especially minority and low-income populations. The title is described as a law journal that "extends to industry and public policy."

Content will cover legal challenges and lawsuits filed in attempts to prevent harmful policies, projects and developments as well as issues of compliance and enforcement, activism, and corrective actions. It will also include information on the legal issues related to the adverse health affects on populations who are most subject to health and environmental hazards and the "complicated" issues inherent in remediation, funding, relocation of facilities that pose hazardous risk to health, and selection for new locations.

Other law-related journals published by Mary Ann Liebert include "Biotechnology Law Report," published six times a year, the quarterly "Election Law Journal" and "Gaming Law Review," also published six times a year.