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Deals In The Heartland: Renewable Energy Projects, Local Resistance, And How Law Can Help, Christiana Ochoa
Deals In The Heartland: Renewable Energy Projects, Local Resistance, And How Law Can Help, Christiana Ochoa
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Informed by original empirical research conducted in the Midwestern United States, this Article provides a rich and textured understanding of the rapidly emerging opposition to renewable energy projects. Beyond the Article’s urgent practical contributions, it also examines the importance of formalism and formality in contracts and complicates current understandings.
Rural communities in every windblown and sun-drenched region of the United States are enmeshed in legal, political, and social conflicts related to the country’s rapid transition to renewable energy. Organized local opposition has foreclosed millions of acres from renewable energy development, impeding national and state-level commitments to achieving renewable energy targets …
Contracts On The Seabed, Christiana Ochoa
Contracts On The Seabed, Christiana Ochoa
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Four million square kilometers of seabed within the sovereignty of Pacific Island nations are currently under contract for mineral exploration or exploitation. Over a million additional square kilometers of the non-sovereign seafloor are licensed for such use. Historically, these licenses have served to establish “squatters’ rights” in anticipation of a distant future when the industry would develop the machinery to exploit oceanic mineral wealth. That moment has arrived, with the first seafloor mining machines rolling off production lines in 2015-2016. Indeed, but for failed financing, the first seabed mine would now be operating in the territorial ocean waters of Papua …
Automatic Fuel Adjustment Clauses: Time For A Hearing, Marshall A. Leaffer
Automatic Fuel Adjustment Clauses: Time For A Hearing, Marshall A. Leaffer
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Through automatic fuel adjustment clauses, utilities in most states are permitted automatically to pass through to customers any increase in fuel costs, thereby circumventing a general rate hearing before a public utilities commission where the validity of any such rate increase could be publicly examined In this Article the author discusses the benefits and detriments of the automatic fuel adjustment clause, using the clause that existed in Ohio until quite recently as an example. He concludes that such a rate increase without a hearing can no longer be justified on the basis of uncontrollable fuel costs. Instead he advocates adoption …
Oil Pollution On Lake Superior: The Uses Of State Regulation, A. Dan Tarlock
Oil Pollution On Lake Superior: The Uses Of State Regulation, A. Dan Tarlock
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Natural Gas And Electric Utility Rate Reform: Taxation Through Ratemaking, Alfred C. Aman, Glen S. Howard
Natural Gas And Electric Utility Rate Reform: Taxation Through Ratemaking, Alfred C. Aman, Glen S. Howard
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Eminent Domain - Review Of Route Selection Made By Public Utility Through Private Wildlife Refuge, A. Dan Tarlock
Eminent Domain - Review Of Route Selection Made By Public Utility Through Private Wildlife Refuge, A. Dan Tarlock
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Legal Technique And National Control Of The Petroleum Industry, Ralph F. Fuchs
Legal Technique And National Control Of The Petroleum Industry, Ralph F. Fuchs
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Book Review. Hamilton, W. H. And Wright, H. R., A Way Of Order For Bituminous Coal, Ralph F. Fuchs
Book Review. Hamilton, W. H. And Wright, H. R., A Way Of Order For Bituminous Coal, Ralph F. Fuchs
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