Notre Dame Law School
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An Environmental Justice Critique Of Biofuels,
2018
Seattle University
An Environmental Justice Critique Of Biofuels, Carmen G. Gonzalez
Carmen G. Gonzalez
Introduction To Transit-Oriented Development,
2018
Touro Law Center
Introduction To Transit-Oriented Development, Michael Lewyn
Michael E Lewyn
Highway Culverts, Salmon Runs, And The Stevens Treaties: A Century Of Litigating Pacific Northwest Tribal Fishing Rights,
2018
Alexander Blewett III School of Law at the University of Montana
Highway Culverts, Salmon Runs, And The Stevens Treaties: A Century Of Litigating Pacific Northwest Tribal Fishing Rights, Ryan Hickey
Public Land & Resources Law Review
Isaac Stevens, then Superintendent of Indian Affairs and Governor of Washington Territory, negotiated a series of treaties with Indian tribes in the Pacific Northwest during 1854 and 1855. A century and a half later in 2001, the United States joined 21 Indian tribes in filing a Request for Determination in the United States District Court for the District of Washington. Plaintiffs alleged the State of Washington had violated those 150-year-old treaties, which remained in effect, by building and maintaining culverts under roads that prevented salmon passage. This litigation eventually reached the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, which held in favor ...
Collaboration Through Nepa: Achieving A Social License To Operate On Federal Public Lands,
2018
Haub School of Environment and Natural Resources and the University of Wyoming College of Law
Collaboration Through Nepa: Achieving A Social License To Operate On Federal Public Lands, Temple Stoellinger, L. Steven Smutko, Jessica M. Western
Public Land & Resources Law Review
As demand and consumption of natural gas increases, so will drilling operations to extract the natural gas on federal public lands. Fueled by the shale gas revolution, natural gas drilling operations are now frequently taking place, not only in the highly documented urban settings, but also on federal public lands with high conservation value. The phenomenon of increased drilling in sensitive locations, both urban and remote, has sparked increased public opposition, requiring oil and gas producers to reconsider how they engage the public. Oil and gas producers have increasingly deployed the concept of a social license to operate to gain ...
Public-Private Conservation Agreements And The Greater Sage-Grouse,
2018
University of Denver Sturm College of Law
Public-Private Conservation Agreements And The Greater Sage-Grouse, Justin R. Pidot
Public Land & Resources Law Review
In 2015, the Obama Administration announced its conservation plans for the greater sage-grouse, an iconic bird of the intermountain west.Political leadership at the time described those plans as the “largest landscape-level conservation effort in U.S. history,”and they served as the foundation for a decision by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (“FWS”) that a listing of the bird was not warranted under the Endangered Species Act (“ESA”). The Trump Administration appears poised to substantially amend the plans, although an array of interested parties have urged that the plans be left intact. Regardless of the outcome of ...
Streamlining The Production Of Clean Energy: Proposals To Reform The Hydroelectricity Licensing Process,
2018
Alexander Blewett III School of Law at the University of Montana
Streamlining The Production Of Clean Energy: Proposals To Reform The Hydroelectricity Licensing Process, Travis Kavulla, Laura Farkas
Public Land & Resources Law Review
Hydroelectric power is an efficient and clean source of power. In an era when air emissions dominate public concern about the environmental effects of the energy sector, it is a paradox that among the most highly regulated energy projects are hydroelectric dams, which do not combust fuel. This is partly due to a failure of successive statutory enactments,which have transformed hydroelectric licensing from a regulatory “one-stop shop” with a single regulator, to a process chained to a bewilderingnumber of often conflicting regulatory agencies, often riven with delay. Hydroelectric licensing has also failed because its capacious standard of review encourages ...
Keeping Power In Charge: Federal Hydropower And The Downstream Environment,
2018
University of New Mexico School of Law
Keeping Power In Charge: Federal Hydropower And The Downstream Environment, Reed D. Benson
Public Land & Resources Law Review
No abstract provided.
Language Matters: Environmental Controversy And The Quest For Common Ground,
2018
Alexander Blewett III School of Law at the University of Montana
Language Matters: Environmental Controversy And The Quest For Common Ground, Scott Slovic
Public Land & Resources Law Review
No abstract provided.
Center For Biological Diversity V. Zinke,
2018
Alexander Blewett III School of Law at the University of Montana
Center For Biological Diversity V. Zinke, Ryan Hickey
Public Land & Resources Law Review
The oft-cited “arbitrary and capricious” standard revived the Center for Biological Diversity’s most recent legal challenge in its decades-long quest to see arctic grayling listed under the Endangered Species Act. While this Ninth Circuit decision did not grant grayling ESA protections, it did require the United States Fish and Wildlife Service to reconsider its 2014 finding that listing grayling as threatened or endangered was unwarranted. In doing so, the court found “range,” as used in the ESA, vague while endorsing the FWS’s 2014 clarification of that term. Finally, this holding identified specific shortcomings of the challenged FWS finding ...
Friends Of Animals V. United States Fish & Wildlife Service,
2018
Alexander Blewett III School of Law at the University of Montana
Friends Of Animals V. United States Fish & Wildlife Service, Bradley E. Tinker
Public Land & Resources Law Review
In Friends of Animals v. United States Fish & Wildlife Service, the Ninth Circuit held that the plain language of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act allows for the removal of one species of bird to benefit another species. Friends of Animals argued that the Service’s experiment permitting the taking of one species––the barred owl––to advance the conservation of a different species––the northern spotted owl––violated the Migratory Bird Treaty Act. The court, however, found that the Act delegates broad implementing discretion to the Secretary of the Interior, and neither the Act nor the underlying international conventions limit ...
Public Employees For Environmental Responsibility V. United States Epa,
2018
Alexander Blewett III School of Law at the University of Montana
Public Employees For Environmental Responsibility V. United States Epa, F. Aaron Rains
Public Land & Resources Law Review
Prior to 2016, the EPA acknowledged that human activities significantly contribute to climate change. However, on March 9, 2017, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt announced that significant debate regarding the issue remained in the scientific community. In response to these statements, a nonprofit organization filed a FOIA request with the EPA seeking any documents or records Pruitt may have used when formulating his statements or substantiating his position. The EPA refused to comply with the request, citing undue burden and improper interrogation and this action followed. Upon review, the District Court for the District of Columbia found the plaintiff’s FOIA ...
Upstate Citizens For Equality, Inc. V. United States,
2018
Alexander Blewett III School of Law at the University of Montana
Upstate Citizens For Equality, Inc. V. United States, Kirsa Shelkey
Public Land & Resources Law Review
The Indian Reorganization Act of 1935 is the proper avenue for Tribes pursuing restoration of their historic trust lands. The Oneida Indian Nation of New York long sought to reassert tribal jurisdiction over its historic homeland in Central New York. These efforts were largely unsuccessful until 2008 when the United States took 13,000 acres of this historic homeland into trust on behalf of the Tribe under the Indian Reorganization Act. This case affirms the federal government’s plenary powers over Indian Tribes, and that neither state sovereignty principles, nor the Enclave Clause upset that authority.
California Department Of Toxic Substances Control V. Westside Delivery, Llc,
2018
Alexander Blewett III School of Law at the University of Montana
California Department Of Toxic Substances Control V. Westside Delivery, Llc, Mitch L. Werbell V
Public Land & Resources Law Review
The Ninth Circuit’s recent decision in California Department of Toxic Substances Control v. Westside Delivery, LLC reminds prospective purchasers of tax-defaulted property of their responsibility for due diligence.The case addressed the reach of the third-party defense to a CERCLA cost recovery action. The court determined that CERCLA’s third-party defense did not apply to a company which purchased a contaminated property at a tax auction because of its “contractual relationship” with the former owner-polluter and because the relevant contaminating acts occurred “in connection with” the prior polluter’s ownership of the site.
The Unconstitutionality Of Consolidated Planning Boards: Interlocal Planning Under New York Law,
2018
Pace University
The Unconstitutionality Of Consolidated Planning Boards: Interlocal Planning Under New York Law, Albert J. Pirro Jr.
Pace Law Review
This Article will examine the nature and constitutionality of consolidated planning boards in light of the broad powers actually granted them. The issues surrounding the constitutionality of consolidated planning boards begs, yet again, Chief Justice Marshall's question respecting the extent of the power granted to the state governments. The question is whether a municipality may abdicate its power to regulate land within its own boundaries by delegating it to a separate planning entity.
Land Use Regulation And Good Intentions,
2018
George Mason University Law School
Land Use Regulation And Good Intentions, Steven J. Eagle
Florida State University Journal of Land Use and Environmental Law
This Essay surveys contemporary issues in American land use regulation. Its central claim is that, despite good intentions, regulations often have either been ineffective or exacerbated existing problems. The problems underlying regulation include contested understandings of private property rights, continual economic and social change, and a political process prone to ad hoc deal making. Together, they result in regulation that is conceptually incoherent and continually provisional.
The Essay briefly reviews how land use philosophy has changed from early nuisance prevention, through Progressive Era comprehensive planning, to modern views of regulation as transactional. It examines our regulatory takings framework for delineating ...
The Nation's First Forester-In-Chief: The Overlooked Role Of Fdr And The Environment -- Review Of Douglas Brinkley's Rightful Heritage: Franklin D. Roosevelt And The Land Of America,
2018
Lewis and Clark Law School
The Nation's First Forester-In-Chief: The Overlooked Role Of Fdr And The Environment -- Review Of Douglas Brinkley's Rightful Heritage: Franklin D. Roosevelt And The Land Of America, Michael C. Blumm
Florida State University Journal of Land Use and Environmental Law
No abstract provided.
Planning For Density: Promises, Perils And A Paradox,
2018
University of Notre Dame Law School
Planning For Density: Promises, Perils And A Paradox, Nicole Stelle Garnett
Florida State University Journal of Land Use and Environmental Law
No abstract provided.
Unknown Quantity: The Bottled Water Industry And Florida's Springs,
2018
Florida State University College of Law
Unknown Quantity: The Bottled Water Industry And Florida's Springs, Kelly Samek
Florida State University Journal of Land Use and Environmental Law
No abstract provided.
Finding The Development Value Of Wetlands And Other Environmentally Sensitive Lands Under The Extent Of Interference With Reasonable Investment-Backed Expectations,
2018
Florida State University College of Law
Finding The Development Value Of Wetlands And Other Environmentally Sensitive Lands Under The Extent Of Interference With Reasonable Investment-Backed Expectations, Donald C. Guy, James E. Holloway
Florida State University Journal of Land Use and Environmental Law
No abstract provided.
The Development Of Regional Impact In Florida's Growh Management Scheme: The Changing Role In Regionalism,
2018
Florida State University College of Law
The Development Of Regional Impact In Florida's Growh Management Scheme: The Changing Role In Regionalism, Joseph Van Rooy
Florida State University Journal of Land Use and Environmental Law
No abstract provided.
