Defining Interim Storage Of Nuclear Waste,
2023
Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
Defining Interim Storage Of Nuclear Waste, Max Johnson
Northwestern University Law Review
Nuclear power may be humanity’s best hope to curb climate-altering greenhouse gas emissions. But public fear of its dangers, including the toxicity of nuclear waste, undermines its expansion. To provide for more effective waste disposal, in 2021 and 2022 the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) recommended licensing two privately-owned nuclear waste storage facilities—called Consolidated Interim Storage Facilities (CISFs)—to be built in New Mexico and in Texas. Both states vehemently oppose the construction and operation of these facilities: legislators in both states have proposed state laws opposing them, and both states have sued the NRC challenging the legality of the facilities’ licensure. …
Examining The Role Of Ags In A Just Transition,
2023
New York University Faculty Account
Examining The Role Of Ags In A Just Transition, Bethany Davis Noll, Terri Gerstein
Pace Environmental Law Review
Tackling the climate crisis requires transitioning from fossil fuel to clean energy, which will necessarily have a significant impact on jobs and the economy overall. The impact of this shift has sometimes been feared as a development that will be harmful to workers and the economy. Fossil fuel jobs are seen as good jobs--well-paid jobs with good benefits and protections--while the emerging clean energy industry has not yet uniformly embraced a high-road employment model. But workers’ rights and environmental concerns are not fundamentally incompatible. There are many policies and tools that can be and are being harnessed to bring about …
Shifting Away From Coal Power: Prioritizing Ratepayers And Communities Vs. Shareholders?,
2023
University of Pittsburgh - Main Campus
Shifting Away From Coal Power: Prioritizing Ratepayers And Communities Vs. Shareholders?, Shanti Gamper-Rabindran
Pace Environmental Law Review
No abstract provided.
Green Transitions In A Covid Economy,
2023
Louisiana State University
Green Transitions In A Covid Economy, Nicholas Bryner
Pace Environmental Law Review
As many elements of a Green New Deal languished in Congress, economic policy took dramatic turns instead to address a different crisis: the Covid-19 pandemic. This Essay explores the way in which legal and policy responses to Covid-19 in the United States—particularly as discourse has focused on the impacts of Covid-19 response on labor markets—may provide insight into the political economy of a Green New Deal. New federal spending toward a just transition is structurally much easier to accomplish than developing new regulatory policy through legislation or executive action and avoids judicial policing of administrative authority.
What Makes It A Just Transition? A Case Study Of Renewable Rikers,
2023
CUNY Law School
What Makes It A Just Transition? A Case Study Of Renewable Rikers, Rebecca Bratspies
Pace Environmental Law Review
This essay offers New York City’s Renewable Rikers as an example of what a just transition might look like in practice. Specifically, this essay describes how Renewable Rikers connects the need for non-polluting energy infrastructure with a broader conversation about decarceration and racial justice to build an inclusive pathway for prosperity and environmental health for all New Yorkers. The first part of this essay sets the stage with a brief overview of the climate crisis. Part two sketches the contours of what constitutes a just transition as that term is used in the Green New Deal Resolution. Part three situates …
Renewable Portfolio Standards: Effectiveness And Carbon Implications,
2023
Claremont McKenna College
Renewable Portfolio Standards: Effectiveness And Carbon Implications, Alexander S. Albrecht
CMC Senior Theses
A renewable portfolio standard (RPS) policy is a popular regulatory tool implemented within the U.S. and abroad to limit energy sector emissions and incentivize renewable energy. Assessing their effectiveness and efficiency is a key component of achieving further reductions. We assess an energy market under an RPS using fixed-effects panel and 2SLS regression models to lend empirical credence to common theory-based concerns about RPS policy, namely (1) that they leave emissions unregulated once the RPS requirement is met and (2) that they do not incentivize full use of renewable energy resources. Our results show these to be valid concerns that …
Sovereign Lands,
2022
University of Oklahoma College of Law
Sovereign Lands, Brent D. Chicken, Amanda J. Dick
Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal
No abstract provided.
Wyoming,
2022
University of Oklahoma College of Law
Wyoming, John R. Chadd
Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal
No abstract provided.
West Virginia,
2022
University of Oklahoma College of Law
West Virginia, Andrew S. Graham
Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal
No abstract provided.
Virginia,
2022
University of Oklahoma College of Law
Virginia, Zachary H. Barrett
Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal
No abstract provided.
Utah,
2022
University of Oklahoma College of Law
Utah, Alan M. White
Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal
No abstract provided.
Texas,
2022
University of Oklahoma College of Law
Texas, Melissa Munson
Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal
No abstract provided.
Tennessee,
2022
University of Oklahoma College of Law
Tennessee, Westley A. Ketron
Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal
No abstract provided.
Pennsylvania,
2022
University of Oklahoma College of Law
Pennsylvania, Nathaniel I. Holland, Jon C. Beckman, Benedict J. Kirchner
Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal
No abstract provided.
Oklahoma,
2022
University of Oklahoma College of Law
Oklahoma, Matt Schlensker, Sandra Fraley
Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal
No abstract provided.
Ohio,
2022
University of Oklahoma College of Law
Ohio, Tim Mckeen, Melissa Grimes
Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal
No abstract provided.
North Dakota,
2022
University of Oklahoma College of Law
North Dakota, William J. Black
Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal
No abstract provided.
New York,
2022
University of Oklahoma College of Law
New York, Delainey Banks
Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal
No abstract provided.
New Mexico,
2022
University of Oklahoma College of Law
New Mexico, Blake C. Jones
Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal
No abstract provided.
Nevada,
2022
University of Oklahoma College of Law
Nevada, Kevin Hivick
Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal
No abstract provided.