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Covariant Risk And Nutrient Credit Training, Brian Sawers
Covariant Risk And Nutrient Credit Training, Brian Sawers
Maryland Law Review Online
Every summer, a dead zone is created in the Chesapeake Bay. The dead zone is created by too much of a good thing: nutrients, especially nitrogen and phosphorus. The largest source of excess nutrients in the Chesapeake is agriculture; manure and artificial fertilizers are washed into streams that eventually reach the bay. In the bay, nitrogen and phosphorus create an algae bloom, which consumes all the dissolved oxygen. Some fish escape, but other creatures expire in this dead sea within the Chesapeake Bay.
To reduce the excess nutrients reaching the bay, several states are experimenting with nutrient credit trading. A …
Structured Settlement Sales And Lead-Poisoned Sellers: Just Say No, Karen Czapanskiy
Structured Settlement Sales And Lead-Poisoned Sellers: Just Say No, Karen Czapanskiy
Faculty Scholarship
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Disclaiming Property, Michael Pappas
Disclaiming Property, Michael Pappas
Faculty Scholarship
Can Congress pick and choose when it must follow the Constitution? One would expect not, and yet the Supreme Court has allowed it to do so. In multiple statutory programs, Congress has disclaimed constitutional property protections for valuable interests that otherwise serve as property. The result is billions of dollars’ worth of “disclaimed property” that can be bought, sold, mortgaged, or leased, but that can also be revoked at any moment without due process or just compensation.
Disclaimed property already represents a great source of value, and property disclaimers are at the core of major recent policies ranging from natural …
Polar Opposites: Assessing The State Of Enviromental Law In The World's Polar Regions, Mark P. Nevitt, Robert Percival
Polar Opposites: Assessing The State Of Enviromental Law In The World's Polar Regions, Mark P. Nevitt, Robert Percival
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