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The Oberlin Saga: Integrating North America’S Pipeline System And Potential Impacts On Hydrogen, Samuel Stephens May 2024

The Oberlin Saga: Integrating North America’S Pipeline System And Potential Impacts On Hydrogen, Samuel Stephens

University of Miami Inter-American Law Review

This Article explores how the D.C. Circuit’s decision in City of Oberlin, Ohio v. FERC (2022) (Oberlin II) will impact future natural gas pipelines and potentially even future hydrogen infrastructure. While the decision reinforced support for integrating North American natural gas infrastructure, given uncertainties in how the United States will regulate the emerging hydrogen industry, there is a chance that the decision could be more expansive than what initially meets the eye. By continuing down the path of supporting North American energy integration, Congress, federal courts, and administrative agencies will help prepare the United States for an uncertain energy future. …


Deforestation Of The Brazilian Amazon Under Jair Bolsonaro’S Reign: A Growing Ecological Disaster And How It May Be Reduced, Richard Perez May 2021

Deforestation Of The Brazilian Amazon Under Jair Bolsonaro’S Reign: A Growing Ecological Disaster And How It May Be Reduced, Richard Perez

University of Miami Inter-American Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Right To Live: How North Atlantic Right Whales Are Going Extinct Despite Environmental Protections, Justin Weatherwax May 2021

The Right To Live: How North Atlantic Right Whales Are Going Extinct Despite Environmental Protections, Justin Weatherwax

University of Miami Inter-American Law Review

No abstract provided.


One Small Step For Earth, One Giant Leap For Costa Rica, Emily Canney May 2018

One Small Step For Earth, One Giant Leap For Costa Rica, Emily Canney

University of Miami Inter-American Law Review

No abstract provided.


Climate Change And Human Trafficking After The Paris Agreement, Michael B. Gerrard Mar 2018

Climate Change And Human Trafficking After The Paris Agreement, Michael B. Gerrard

University of Miami Law Review

At least 21 million people globally are victims of human trafficking, typically involving either sexual exploitation or forced labor. This form of modern-day slavery tends to increase after natural disasters or conflicts where large numbers of people are displaced from their homes and become highly vulnerable. In the decades to come, climate change will very likely lead to a large increase in the number of people who are displaced and thus vulnerable to trafficking. The Paris Climate Agreement of 2015 established objectives to limit global temperature increases, but the voluntary pledges made by nearly every country fall far short of …


The Climate For Human Rights, Rebecca M. Bratspies Mar 2018

The Climate For Human Rights, Rebecca M. Bratspies

University of Miami Law Review

Climate change is the defining challenge of the 21st century. The United States government is currently ignoring the problem, but wishful thinking alone will not keep global mean temperature rise below 2ºC. This Article proposes a way forward. It advises environmental decision-makers to use human rights norms to guide them as they make decisions under United States law. By reframing their discretion through a human rights lens, decision-makers can use their existing authority to respond to the super-wicked problem of climate change


Climate Change And The Challenges To Democracy, Marcello Di Paola, Dale Jamieson Mar 2018

Climate Change And The Challenges To Democracy, Marcello Di Paola, Dale Jamieson

University of Miami Law Review

This Article explores the uneasy interaction between climate change and democracy, particularly liberal democracy. Its central claim is that climate change and other problems of the Anthropocene—this new epoch into which no earthly entity, process, or system escapes the reach and influence of human activity—expose and exacerbate existing vulnerabilities in democratic theory and practice, particularly in their currently dominant liberal form; and that both democracies’ failures and their most promising attempts at managing these problems expose democracies to significant legitimacy challenges.


Limiting The National Right To Exclude, Katrina M. Wyman Mar 2018

Limiting The National Right To Exclude, Katrina M. Wyman

University of Miami Law Review

This essay argues that the robust right to exclude that nation states currently enjoy will be harder to justify in an era of climate change. Similar to landowners, nation states have virtual monopolies over portions of the earth. However, the right of landowners to control who enters their land is considerably more constrained than the right of nation states to control who enters their territory. Climate change will alter the areas of the earth suitable for human habitation and the broad right of nation states to exclude will be more difficult to justify in this new environment.


Alien Invasion! An Ocean Picture Coming To A Sea Near You: An Analysis Of International Frameworks For Aquatic Invasive Species Control, Kelly Cox Feb 2016

Alien Invasion! An Ocean Picture Coming To A Sea Near You: An Analysis Of International Frameworks For Aquatic Invasive Species Control, Kelly Cox

University of Miami Inter-American Law Review

Aquatic invasive species are marine, estuarine, or freshwater organisms that adversely impact ecosystems they are not native to. Such impacts include long-lasting or permanent damage to habitats, ecosystem balance, and biodiversity. These impacts have a cascading effect on local economies dependent on these natural resources by impeding recreational and commercial activities. Moreover, aquatic invasive species control and management is both complex and challenging due to the lack of physical barriers in aquatic environments to abate or contain the spread of these nuisance species. The Wider Caribbean Region has been notably impacted by the introduction of the non-native lionfish (Pterois volitans) …


Who's Afraid Of The Supremacy Clause? State Regulation Of Air Pollution From Offshore Ships Is Upheld In Pacific Merchant Shipping Ass'n V. Goldstene, Jennifer Hammitt Oct 2001

Who's Afraid Of The Supremacy Clause? State Regulation Of Air Pollution From Offshore Ships Is Upheld In Pacific Merchant Shipping Ass'n V. Goldstene, Jennifer Hammitt

University of Miami Law Review

No abstract provided.


Reflections On Environmental Rights As Third Generation Solidarity Rights, Ileana M. Porras Jan 1997

Reflections On Environmental Rights As Third Generation Solidarity Rights, Ileana M. Porras

University of Miami Inter-American Law Review

No abstract provided.


Mexico's El Cuchillo Dam Project, Raúl M. Sánchez Jan 1997

Mexico's El Cuchillo Dam Project, Raúl M. Sánchez

University of Miami Inter-American Law Review

No abstract provided.


Gatt Sets Its Net On Environmental Regulation: The Gatt Panel Ruling On Mexican Yellowfin Tuna Imports And The Need For Reform Of The International Trading System, Eric Christensen, Samantha Geffin Jan 1992

Gatt Sets Its Net On Environmental Regulation: The Gatt Panel Ruling On Mexican Yellowfin Tuna Imports And The Need For Reform Of The International Trading System, Eric Christensen, Samantha Geffin

University of Miami Inter-American Law Review

No abstract provided.


Environmental Warfare [Comment], Bernard H. Oxman Jan 1991

Environmental Warfare [Comment], Bernard H. Oxman

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No abstract provided.


The Duty To Respect Generally Accepted International Standards, Bernard H. Oxman Jan 1991

The Duty To Respect Generally Accepted International Standards, Bernard H. Oxman

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No abstract provided.