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Can Nonstatutory Federal Climate Litigation Drive Federal Climate Policy?, David L. Markell
Can Nonstatutory Federal Climate Litigation Drive Federal Climate Policy?, David L. Markell
Scholarly Publications
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Harnessing Energy Markets To Conserve Natural Resources? The Case Of Southern U.S. Forests, Blake Hudson
Harnessing Energy Markets To Conserve Natural Resources? The Case Of Southern U.S. Forests, Blake Hudson
Florida State University Law Review
Wood pellet production facilities have spread rapidly across the southeastern United States over the last decade, a market driven largely by electricity generators in Europe converting from coal-fired to wood pellet-fired boilers. This has raised concerns that non-timber values of southern U.S. forests are at risk and that CO2 emissions from burning carbon-based products will continue to exacerbate climate change. One element left out of the analysis regarding whether wood pellet market development is a net environmental positive or negative, however, is the likelihood that forestland will be converted to non-forest uses if Southern landowners do not have adequate markets …