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Full-Text Articles in Energy and Utilities Law
Energy Justice And Renewable Rikers, Rebecca Bratspies
Energy Justice And Renewable Rikers, Rebecca Bratspies
University of Miami Law Review
Unsustainable energy practices generate the lion’s share of global carbon emissions as well as staggering levels of deadly particulate pollution. Replacing the current dirty, fossil fuel-based system with affordable, clean energy is both a human rights imperative and a climate change necessity. This transition, which has already begun, creates the opportunity to do things differently. By confronting the structural racism embedded in existing energy structures, we can build a just transition rather than just a transition. This Article uses New York City’s Renewable Rikers project as a case study to explore how we might take advantage of the intersections between …
A Balanced Prescription For More Effective Environmental Regulations, W. Kip Viscusi
A Balanced Prescription For More Effective Environmental Regulations, W. Kip Viscusi
Pace Environmental Law Review
Government agencies increasingly base the structure and approval of environmental regulations on a benefit-cost test. For regulations that pass this test, total benefits exceed total costs. Under a benefit-cost framework, the degree of regulatory stringency is set at an economically efficient level whereby the tightness of the regulation is increased up to the point where the incremental benefits equal the incremental costs. Setting regulatory standards to achieve the efficient degree of pollution control does not fully discourage entry into polluting industries, provide compensation to those harmed by pollution, or establish meaningful incentives for effective enforcement. This article proposes that the …
Energy Grid Decarbonization: A Tale Of Resistance And Compliance In Florida, Rachel Tennant
Energy Grid Decarbonization: A Tale Of Resistance And Compliance In Florida, Rachel Tennant
Mitchell Hamline Law Journal of Public Policy and Practice
No abstract provided.
Environmental Justice In Little Village: A Case For Reforming Chicago’S Zoning Law, Charles Isaacs
Environmental Justice In Little Village: A Case For Reforming Chicago’S Zoning Law, Charles Isaacs
Northwestern Journal of Law & Social Policy
Chicago’s Little Village community bears the heavy burden of environmental injustice and racism. The residents are mostly immigrants and people of color who live with low levels of income, limited access to healthcare, and disproportionate levels of dangerous air pollution. Before its retirement, Little Village’s Crawford coal-burning power plant was the lead source of air pollution, contributing to 41 deaths, 550 emergency room visits, and 2,800 asthma attacks per year. After the plant’s retirement, community members wanted a say on the future use of the lot, only to be closed out when a corporation, Hilco Redevelopment Partners, bought the lot …
Safe & Environmentally Sound Recycling Of Ships: A Stocktaking Of The Current State Of International Law, Ishtiaque Ahmed
Safe & Environmentally Sound Recycling Of Ships: A Stocktaking Of The Current State Of International Law, Ishtiaque Ahmed
Fordham Environmental Law Review
Ship-breaking is one of the most dangerous occupations in the world and widely known as a pollution-heavy industry. This industry is currently concentrated primarily in three South Asian developing countries, namely Bangladesh, India and Pakistan. Ensuring the safe and environmentally sound recycling of ships remains a global concern. There are many international regulations which apply to the activities of ship-breaking, but none of them address the issue in a comprehensive manner. The most relevant international instrument governing ship recycling, the 2009 Hong Kong Convention remains unenforceable due to non-ratification by the chief ship recycling states. The only enforceable international instrument …
The Hns Convention: Will It Be A Game Changer For China’S Marine Pollution Law?, Ruixuan Zhuo
The Hns Convention: Will It Be A Game Changer For China’S Marine Pollution Law?, Ruixuan Zhuo
Natural Resources Journal
This article analyzes the international convention governing marine pollution caused by the shipment of hazardous and noxious substances (“HNS”). It also discusses China’s domestic laws and regulations of HNS marine pollution liability comparing the Chinese approach with norms under the HNS Convention. The author argues that China faces severe HNS pollution issues and proposes solutions to HNS liability and compensation problems.
Water, Water, Anywhere?: Protecting Water Quantity In State Water Quality Standards, Julie F. Youngman
Water, Water, Anywhere?: Protecting Water Quantity In State Water Quality Standards, Julie F. Youngman
Indiana Law Journal
Although much of the earth’s surface is covered with water, less than one percent of water is available for human use. Water is becoming progressively scarcer worldwide, as demand increases and pollution, drought, and climate change jeopardize access to clean water. The United States is no exception to that trend. Effective regulation of water supplies can blunt the impacts of water scarcity. This Article suggests that states can—and should—regulate instream flows and lake levels in their federally-mandated water quality standards, with an eye toward conserving scarce water resources. Regulating water quantity as an element of water quality is not only …
Strictly Leakage: How Minnesota Export Subsidies Pay For Climate Pollution, Hudson B. Kingston
Strictly Leakage: How Minnesota Export Subsidies Pay For Climate Pollution, Hudson B. Kingston
Mitchell Hamline Law Review
No abstract provided.
Agenda: Winter, Wilderness & Climate: Threats & Solutions, University Of Colorado Boulder. Getches-Wilkinson Center For Natural Resources, Energy, And The Environment, The Wilderness Society, Protect Our Winters
Agenda: Winter, Wilderness & Climate: Threats & Solutions, University Of Colorado Boulder. Getches-Wilkinson Center For Natural Resources, Energy, And The Environment, The Wilderness Society, Protect Our Winters
Winter, Wilderness, and Climate--Threats and Solutions (October 12)
In partnership with the Getches-Wilkinson Center, join The Wilderness Society and Protect Our Winters for an interactive presentation about energy development and climate impacts on public lands.
This event was held on Wednesday, October 12, 2016, 5:30 - 7:30 p.m., in the University of Colorado Law School, Wolf Law Building, Wittemyer Courtroom.
Slides: Winter, Wilderness & Climate: Threats & Solutions, Jim Ramey, Lindsay Bourgoine
Slides: Winter, Wilderness & Climate: Threats & Solutions, Jim Ramey, Lindsay Bourgoine
Winter, Wilderness, and Climate--Threats and Solutions (October 12)
Presenters:
Jim Ramey, The Wilderness Society
Lindsay Bourgoine, Protect Our Winters
56 slides
High Country Conservation Advocates V. United States Forest Service, 52 F. Supp. 3d 1174 (D. Colo. 2014), Kathryn S. Ore
High Country Conservation Advocates V. United States Forest Service, 52 F. Supp. 3d 1174 (D. Colo. 2014), Kathryn S. Ore
Public Land & Resources Law Review
High Country Conservation Advocates v. United States Forest Service concerns the United States Forest Service’s and the Bureau of Land Management’s authorizations of on-the-ground mining exploration activities in the Sunset Roadless Area of western Colorado. The United States District Court for the District of Colorado’s holding has far-reaching consequences for federal agencies’ analysis and disclosure of impacts on the climate under the National Environmental Policy Act (“NEPA”). In addition to bolstering the Plaintiffs’ recent successes at establishing legal standing to challenge federal agencies’ disclosures and analyses of impacts on the climate under NEPA, High Country is the first case to …
Energy Versus Water: The Growing Role Of Water In Controlling Energy Decisions, Andrea West Wortzel
Energy Versus Water: The Growing Role Of Water In Controlling Energy Decisions, Andrea West Wortzel
University of Richmond Law Review
No abstract provided.
Climate Change Impacts And Nepa: Overcoming The Remote And Speculative Defense, Alana M. Wase
Climate Change Impacts And Nepa: Overcoming The Remote And Speculative Defense, Alana M. Wase
Maryland Law Review
No abstract provided.
Slides: Hydrofracking: Air Issues And Community Exposure, Debra A. Kaden
Slides: Hydrofracking: Air Issues And Community Exposure, Debra A. Kaden
Air Quality Impacts from Oil and Gas Development (January 27)
Presenter: Debra Kaden, Ph.D., Toxicologist, ENVIRON International Corporation, discusses air concentrations of chemicals of potential health concern surrounding oil and gas development activities, as well as temporal and spatial patterns of these chemicals in the ambient environment. Such information is necessary to evaluate possible health impacts of the drilling process on air in surrounding communities.
19 slides
Creating Regional Environmental Governance Regimes: Implications Of Southeast Asian Responses To Transboundary Haze Pollution, Roda Mushkat
Creating Regional Environmental Governance Regimes: Implications Of Southeast Asian Responses To Transboundary Haze Pollution, Roda Mushkat
Washington and Lee Journal of Energy, Climate, and the Environment
No abstract provided.
Introductory Remarks: International Energy Governance, Lakshman Guruswamy
Introductory Remarks: International Energy Governance, Lakshman Guruswamy
Publications
No abstract provided.
Mercurial But Not Swift—U.S. Epa's Initiative To Regulate Coal Plant Mercury Emissions Changes Course Again As It Enters A Third Decade, Keith Harley
Chicago-Kent Law Review
The effort to establish national standards to control mercury air pollution from coal-fired power plants now spans twenty years, four presidential administrations, and remains undone. This note will briefly describe the failed twenty-year effort to regulate mercury emissions from coal-fired power plants. It will show how United States Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) efforts during the (first) Bush and Clinton Administrations to construct mercury regulations were dismantled during the Administration of George W. Bush. During the second Bush Administration, U.S. EPA substituted a new regulatory approach that was ultimately repudiated by the federal judiciary as plainly inconsistent with the Clean …
Smart-Grid: Technology And The Psychology Of Environmental Behavior Change, Stephanie M. Stern
Smart-Grid: Technology And The Psychology Of Environmental Behavior Change, Stephanie M. Stern
Chicago-Kent Law Review
There is a schism in the legal scholarship between scholars who argue that value, norm, and information campaigns can induce pro-environmental behavior and those who contend that structural, psychological, and social forces sharply constrain behavior change. Both sides of this debate have neglected the critical and ever-increasing role of technology in addressing residential pollution. The example of electricity "smart grids" illustrates how technology engineered to override cognitive and behavioral limitations can comprehensively reduce household consumption and emissions. Electricity conservation suffers from multiple barriers to collective action, including large numbers of geographically dispersed polluters, low financial payoffs, and, the contribution of …
Slides: The Peril Of Energy Usage, Mike Tupper
Slides: The Peril Of Energy Usage, Mike Tupper
The Promise and Peril of Oil Shale Development (February 5)
Presenter: Mike Tupper, Executive Vice President, Composite Technology Development, Inc.
9 slides
China In Context: Energy, Water, And Climate Cooperation, Prof. Elizabeth Burleson
China In Context: Energy, Water, And Climate Cooperation, Prof. Elizabeth Burleson
Prof. Elizabeth Burleson
Climate resilient communities can be achieved with the support of global research, development, deployment, and diffusion of environmentally sound low GHG emission technologies and processes. Technology cooperation should lower emissions remaining mindful of biodiversity, ecosystem services and livelihoods. China and the United States need to respond effectively to both economic and climate crises and can do so in part by cooperating on environmentally sound technology that transforms the global use of energy.
Slides: Water Footprints: Consciousness Raising Meets Risk Management, Steve Malloch
Slides: Water Footprints: Consciousness Raising Meets Risk Management, Steve Malloch
Western Water Law, Policy and Management: Ripples, Currents, and New Channels for Inquiry (Martz Summer Conference, June 3-5)
Presenter: Steve Malloch, Senior Western Water Program Manager, National Wildlife Federation, Seattle, WA
38 slides
Slides: Threats To Biological Diversity: Global, Continental, Local, J. Michael Scott
Slides: Threats To Biological Diversity: Global, Continental, Local, J. Michael Scott
Shifting Baselines and New Meridians: Water, Resources, Landscapes, and the Transformation of the American West (Summer Conference, June 4-6)
Presenter: J. Michael Scott, U.S. Geological Survey, Idaho Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, University of Idaho
38 slides
Slides: Paying The Price For Power: When L.A. Turns On The Lights, Northwestern New Mexico Feels It, Jonathan Thompson
Slides: Paying The Price For Power: When L.A. Turns On The Lights, Northwestern New Mexico Feels It, Jonathan Thompson
Shifting Baselines and New Meridians: Water, Resources, Landscapes, and the Transformation of the American West (Summer Conference, June 4-6)
Presenter: Jonathan Thompson, Editor, High Country News
23 slides
The Growing Influence Of Tort And Property Law On Natural Resources Law: Case Studies Of Coal Bed Methane Development And Geologic Carbon Sequestration, Alexandra B. Klass
The Growing Influence Of Tort And Property Law On Natural Resources Law: Case Studies Of Coal Bed Methane Development And Geologic Carbon Sequestration, Alexandra B. Klass
The Future of Natural Resources Law and Policy (Summer Conference, June 6-8)
19 pages.
"Alexandra B. Klass, Associate Professor of Law, University of Minnesota Law School"
Controlling The Environmental Consequences Of Power Development In The People's Republic Of China, Homer Sun
Controlling The Environmental Consequences Of Power Development In The People's Republic Of China, Homer Sun
Michigan Journal of International Law
This Note proposes a strategy to mitigate the environmental degradation resulting from China's power development. Part I introduces China's power industry - its excessive dependence on coal, its antiquated and inefficient infrastructure, its pollutive effects, and its projected expansion. Part II appraises the ways in which China's environmental laws, macroeconomic controls, and foreign investment restrictions influence the growth of power development and its corresponding effect on the environment. Part III assesses the role that governments, development banks, and international organizations can play in curbing the environmental impact of Chinese power projects. Considering the problems associated with current Chinese and international …
Groundwater Control Programs Affecting Water Development, Arthur L. Littleworth
Groundwater Control Programs Affecting Water Development, Arthur L. Littleworth
The Federal Impact on State Water Rights (Summer Conference, June 11-13)
19 pages.
Hydrology: Unraveling The Mysteries Of Groundwater Occurrence And Movement, Thomas M. Stetson
Hydrology: Unraveling The Mysteries Of Groundwater Occurrence And Movement, Thomas M. Stetson
Groundwater: Allocation, Development and Pollution (Summer Conference, June 6-9)
31 pages (includes illustrations).
Glossary omitted.
An Environmental Overview Of Geothermal Resources Development, A. Dan Tarlock, Richard L. Waller
An Environmental Overview Of Geothermal Resources Development, A. Dan Tarlock, Richard L. Waller
Articles by Maurer Faculty
While the adverse environmental effects of geothermal resources development appear to be less severe than those created by other energy sources, geothermal development nonetheless poses serious environmental problems. Professor Tarlock and Mr. Waller identify and discuss four categories of potential adverse environmental impacts of geothermal development: land use disturbance, water pollution, air pollution and noise.
Geothermal Bibliography, A. Dan Tarlock, Richard L. Waller
Geothermal Bibliography, A. Dan Tarlock, Richard L. Waller
Articles by Maurer Faculty
No abstract provided.
An Historical Review Of Oil Spills Along The Maine Coast 1953-1973, Edward H. Shenton
An Historical Review Of Oil Spills Along The Maine Coast 1953-1973, Edward H. Shenton
Maine Collection
An Historical Review of Oil Spills Along the Maine Coast 1953-1973
by Edward H. Shenton
Prepared for The Maine State Planning Office, Coastal Planning Group and The Research Institute of the Gulf of Maine (TRIGOM), August, 1973.
TRIGOM Publication No. 3
Contents: Introduction / A Chronology of Significant Oil Spills / A Summary of Biological Impacts / Spill Statistics / Discussion of Results / Conclusions of the Study / Recommendations for Future Research / Appendices