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Looking Inward: Domestic Policy For Climate Change Refugees In The United States And Beyond, Carey Degenaro Jan 2015

Looking Inward: Domestic Policy For Climate Change Refugees In The United States And Beyond, Carey Degenaro

University of Colorado Law Review

No abstract provided.


Tribes As Innovative Environmental "Laboratories", Elizabeth Ann Kronk Warner Jan 2015

Tribes As Innovative Environmental "Laboratories", Elizabeth Ann Kronk Warner

University of Colorado Law Review

Tribes are not vestiges of the past, but laboratories of the future. - Vine Deloria, Jr1. Indian tribes, because of their distinctive regulatory authority and significant connection to the environment, possess unique capacities to innovate within the field of environmental law in the over fifty-six million acres that make up Indian country. This Article-the first scholarly work to address this aspect of tribal environmental law advocates for the idea of tribes as "laboratories" for examining environmental regulation. Tribes enact environmental regulation by two primary means-in their capacity as "tribes as states" (TAS) and in their capacity as inherent sovereigns-both of …


How National Park Law Really Works, John Copeland Nagle Jan 2015

How National Park Law Really Works, John Copeland Nagle

University of Colorado Law Review

This Article provides the first explanation of the relationship between three overlapping sources of national park law. It first explains how the Organic Act affords the National Park Service substantial discretion to manage the national parks, including deciding the proper balance between enjoyment and conservation in particular instances. It next shows how federal environmental statutes push national park management toward preservation rather than enjoyment. Finally, the Article explains that Congress often intervenes to mandate particular management outcomes at individual parks, typically but not always toward enjoyment rather than preservation. The result is that the National Park Service has substantial discretion …


Compromise In Colorado: Solar Net Metering And The Case For "Renewable Avoided Cost", Alexander D. White Jan 2015

Compromise In Colorado: Solar Net Metering And The Case For "Renewable Avoided Cost", Alexander D. White

University of Colorado Law Review

No abstract provided.