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Slides: Energy Production And The West's Wild Places, Amy Mall
Slides: Energy Production And The West's Wild Places, Amy Mall
Shifting Baselines and New Meridians: Water, Resources, Landscapes, and the Transformation of the American West (Summer Conference, June 4-6)
Presenter: Amy Mall, Senior Policy Analyst, Natural Resources Defense Council
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The Identifiability Of Bias In Environmental Law, Shi-Ling Hsu
The Identifiability Of Bias In Environmental Law, Shi-Ling Hsu
Scholarly Publications
The identifiability effect is the human propensity to have stronger emotions regarding identifiable individuals or groups than for abstract ones. The more information that is available about a person, the more likely this person’s situation will influence human decisionmaking. This human propensity has biased law and public policy against environmental and ecological protection because the putative economic victims of environmental regulation are usually easily identifiable workers that lose their jobs, while the beneficiaries—people who avoid a premature death from air or water pollution, people who would be saved by medicinal compounds available only in rare plant and animal species, and …
Settlement Of The Acf Controversy: Sisyphus At The Dawn Of The 21st Century, Robert H. Abrams
Settlement Of The Acf Controversy: Sisyphus At The Dawn Of The 21st Century, Robert H. Abrams
Journal Publications
The ancient Greek myth in which Sisyphus is condemned to perpetually roll a massive boulder up a hill only to have it fall back down now symbolizes repetitive, ultimately fruitless effort. The Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint (ACF) basin rapidly has become the emblem of Sisyphean water conflict in the eastern United States. It has the potential to rival some of the West's long-running water disputes, although it will never challenge the Colorado River in that regard.
At the outset, it is important to recognize that there are many parties with an interest in the ACF basin. The most prominent in recent years are …
Judicial Iron Triangles: The Roadless Rule To Nowhere—And What Can Be Done To Free The Forest Service's Rulemaking Process, Christopher Cumings
Judicial Iron Triangles: The Roadless Rule To Nowhere—And What Can Be Done To Free The Forest Service's Rulemaking Process, Christopher Cumings
Oklahoma Law Review
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