Landfill Environmental Trade-Off Indeterminacy
S · State
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/113#Landfill_Environmental_Trade-Off_Indeterminacy
Properties
Instance of
No-Finite-AnswerEnvironmentalTrade-OffState
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#No-Finite-AnswerEnvironmentalTrade-OffState
Active period
Throughout the case, from initial design through public debate and ethics board analysis
Affected parties
Adjacent property owners
EPA regulatory framework
Engineer C
Engineers A and B
General public
Town council
Confidence
0.9
Importance
high
Subject
The expanded landfill design decision and its environmental impact assessment
Terminated by
Not terminated — the indeterminacy is structural and persists as a feature of environmental engineering decisions of this type
Triggering event
Recognition that applicable EPA guidelines and other regulatory frameworks require case-by-case site-specific judgment rather than providing a definitive answer
Urgency level
medium
Source Evidence
Source text
There is no finite answer to the balance or 'trade-off' which is involved in the overall concerns about Case No. 79-2 environmental dangers for particular projects
Text references
There is no finite answer to the balance or 'trade-off' which is involved in the overall concerns about Case No. 79-2 environmental dangers for particular projects
This is a case-by-case decision which requires cognizance of the particular circumstances found at each site
professional judgment will be the final arbiter of the best balance between society's needs for certain facilities and the level of environmental degradation which may be unavoidable in filling those basic needs
there cannot be a clear-cut resolution in advance to resolve differences of opinion in such matters
TTL
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owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Landfill Environmental Trade-Off Indeterminacy" ;
proeth:activeperiod "Throughout the case, from initial design through public debate and ethics board analysis" ;
proeth:affectedparties "Adjacent property owners",
"EPA regulatory framework",
"Engineer C",
"Engineers A and B",
"General public",
"Town council" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "State" ;
proeth:confidence "0.9" ;
proeth:discoveredincase "113" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "1" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "discussion" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-03-01T22:14:28.527785+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "113" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-03-01T22:14:28.527785+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:sourcetext "There is no finite answer to the balance or 'trade-off' which is involved in the overall concerns about Case No. 79-2 environmental dangers for particular projects" ;
proeth:stateclass "No-Finite-Answer Environmental Trade-Off State" ;
proeth:subject "The expanded landfill design decision and its environmental impact assessment" ;
proeth:terminatedby "Not terminated — the indeterminacy is structural and persists as a feature of environmental engineering decisions of this type" ;
proeth:textreferences "There is no finite answer to the balance or 'trade-off' which is involved in the overall concerns about Case No. 79-2 environmental dangers for particular projects",
"This is a case-by-case decision which requires cognizance of the particular circumstances found at each site",
"professional judgment will be the final arbiter of the best balance between society's needs for certain facilities and the level of environmental degradation which may be unavoidable in filling those basic needs",
"there cannot be a clear-cut resolution in advance to resolve differences of opinion in such matters" ;
proeth:triggeringevent "Recognition that applicable EPA guidelines and other regulatory frameworks require case-by-case site-specific judgment rather than providing a definitive answer" ;
proeth:urgencylevel "medium" ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 113 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-03-01T22:37:07.045664"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 113 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
113
Discovered in pass
1
Discovered in section
discussion
First discovered
2026-03-01T22:14:28.527785+00:00
First case
113
Generated
2026-03-01T22:14:28.527785+00:00
Attributed to
Case 113 Extraction
Generated
2026-03-01T22:37:07.045664
Generated by
ProEthica Case 113 Extraction