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Collaboration Through Nepa: Achieving A Social License To Operate On Federal Public Lands, Temple Stoellinger, L. Steven Smutko, Jessica M. Western Oct 2018

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, Justin R. Pidot Oct 2018

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 this debate, conservation of …


Streamlining The Production Of Clean Energy: Proposals To Reform The Hydroelectricity Licensing Process, Travis Kavulla, Laura Farkas Oct 2018

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 special-interest …


Keeping Power In Charge: Federal Hydropower And The Downstream Environment, Reed D. Benson Oct 2018

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, Scott Slovic Oct 2018

Language Matters: Environmental Controversy And The Quest For Common Ground, Scott Slovic

Public Land & Resources Law Review

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Center For Biological Diversity V. Zinke, Ryan Hickey Oct 2018

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, highlighting how …


Friends Of Animals V. United States Fish & Wildlife Service, Bradley E. Tinker Oct 2018

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 the taking of …


Recent Case Decisions Oct 2018

Recent Case Decisions

Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal

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Sovereign Lands, Melissa Dixon Oct 2018

Sovereign Lands, Melissa Dixon

Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal

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Wyoming, John R. Chadd Oct 2018

Wyoming, John R. Chadd

Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal

No abstract provided.


West Virginia, Andrew Graham Oct 2018

West Virginia, Andrew Graham

Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal

No abstract provided.


Virginia, Zachary H. Barrett, Sierra Williams Oct 2018

Virginia, Zachary H. Barrett, Sierra Williams

Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal

No abstract provided.


Utah, Jim Tartaglia Oct 2018

Utah, Jim Tartaglia

Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal

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Texas, Don Hueske, Ashley Howie Tallichet Oct 2018

Texas, Don Hueske, Ashley Howie Tallichet

Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal

No abstract provided.


Tennessee, Westley A. Ketron Oct 2018

Tennessee, Westley A. Ketron

Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal

No abstract provided.


Pennsylvania, Nathaniel I. Holland, Jon C. Beckman, Benedict J. Kirchner Oct 2018

Pennsylvania, Nathaniel I. Holland, Jon C. Beckman, Benedict J. Kirchner

Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal

No abstract provided.


Oklahoma, Matt Schlensker, Justin Fisher Oct 2018

Oklahoma, Matt Schlensker, Justin Fisher

Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal

No abstract provided.


Ohio, Timothy M. Mckeen, Melissa S. Grimes Oct 2018

Ohio, Timothy M. Mckeen, Melissa S. Grimes

Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal

No abstract provided.


North Dakota, William J. Black Oct 2018

North Dakota, William J. Black

Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal

No abstract provided.


New York, Nathaniel I. Holland Oct 2018

New York, Nathaniel I. Holland

Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal

No abstract provided.


Nevada, Kacie M. Bevers Oct 2018

Nevada, Kacie M. Bevers

Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal

No abstract provided.


Nebraska, Ashley Howie Tallichet Oct 2018

Nebraska, Ashley Howie Tallichet

Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal

No abstract provided.


Montana, Heather Graham Oct 2018

Montana, Heather Graham

Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal

No abstract provided.


Missouri, Heather Graham Oct 2018

Missouri, Heather Graham

Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal

No abstract provided.


Michigan, M. Vafa Barissi Oct 2018

Michigan, M. Vafa Barissi

Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal

No abstract provided.


Maryland, Davin L. Seamon Oct 2018

Maryland, Davin L. Seamon

Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal

No abstract provided.


Louisiana, Rachel Briley Oct 2018

Louisiana, Rachel Briley

Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal

No abstract provided.


Kentucky, Gary Holland, Nash Bowen Oct 2018

Kentucky, Gary Holland, Nash Bowen

Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal

No abstract provided.


Kansas, Sarah Trainer, Steven A. Rhodes Oct 2018

Kansas, Sarah Trainer, Steven A. Rhodes

Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal

No abstract provided.


Illinois, Justin Fisher Oct 2018

Illinois, Justin Fisher

Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal

No abstract provided.