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Harmonizing Commercial Wind Power And The Endangered Species Act Through Administrative Reform, J. B. Ruhl
Harmonizing Commercial Wind Power And The Endangered Species Act Through Administrative Reform, J. B. Ruhl
Vanderbilt Law Review
What could be greener than wind power? That's easy-saving endangered species! The wind power industry has learned the hard way what timber companies, federal land management agencies, hydropower generators, state highway departments, real estate developers, small coastal villages, the Environmental Protection Agency, farmers, major metropolitan governments, and more like them around the nation know all too well-never, ever take your eyes off the Endangered Species Act ("ESA"). It may be green and one of the darlings of our nation's renewable energy future, but wind power has no "green pass" to get out of the ESA.
The reason wind power has …