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- Shifting Baselines and New Meridians: Water, Resources, Landscapes, and the Transformation of the American West (Summer Conference, June 4-6) (1)
- The Future of Natural Resources Law and Policy (Summer Conference, June 6-8) (1)
- The National Forest Management Act in a Changing Society, 1976-1996: How Well Has It Worked in the Past 20 Years?: Will It Work in the 21st Century? (September 16-18) (1)
- The Public Lands During the Remainder of the 20th Century: Planning, Law, and Policy in the Federal Land Agencies (Summer Conference, June 8-10) (1)
- Water Resources Allocation: Laws and Emerging Issues: A Short Course (Summer Conference, June 8-11) (1)
- Water and Air Quality Issues in Oil and Gas Development: The Evolving Framework of Regulation and Management (Martz Summer Conference, June 5-6) (1)
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Full-Text Articles in Law
Presidential Progress On Climate Change: Will The Courts Interfere With What Needs To Be Done To Save Our Planet?, Michael B. Gerrard
Presidential Progress On Climate Change: Will The Courts Interfere With What Needs To Be Done To Save Our Planet?, Michael B. Gerrard
Faculty Scholarship
The Biden Administration is undertaking numerous actions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and transition away from fossil fuels as part of the fight against climate change. Many of these actions are likely to be challenged in court. This paper describes the various legal theories that are likely to be used in these challenges, assesses their prospects of success given the current composition of the Supreme Court, and suggests ways to minimize the risks.
Letting Go Of Stability: Resilience And Environmental Law, Robert L. Fischman
Letting Go Of Stability: Resilience And Environmental Law, Robert L. Fischman
Indiana Law Journal
Historic variation in the environment once served as a reliable guide to future behavior. Sustainability promised continuity of ecological and social structures and functions within the known envelope of historic variation. Now climate change and other environmental stressors are tipping systems into behaviors that no longer remain within the confines of precedent. Social-ecological systems are neither persistent nor predicable. Letting go of stability releases us from untenable expectations of steady maintenance of some natural order. Resistance to change will continue to play a role as environmental law suppresses disruptions and buys time. But resistance will eventually yield the stage to …
Clean Air Council V. Pruitt, Oliver Wood
Clean Air Council V. Pruitt, Oliver Wood
Public Land & Resources Law Review
The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia granted a motion for summary vacatur against the Environmental Protection Agency after environmental groups challenged the agency’s reconsideration of the Obama-era methane rule under the Clean Air Act. The court held that the EPA unlawfully issued a stay after it reconsidered the rule without proper authorization. The court vacated the EPA’s stay, one example of the Trump Administration unsuccessfully repealing Obama-era rulemaking.
Murray Energy Corporation V. Administrator Of Environmental Protection Agency, Peter B. Taylor
Murray Energy Corporation V. Administrator Of Environmental Protection Agency, Peter B. Taylor
Public Land & Resources Law Review
Congress amended the Clean Air Act in 1977 because of public concern that enforcement of the Clean Air Act would have adverse effects on employment. Section 321(a) tasks the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency with a continuous duty to evaluate the potential employment impact of the administration and enforcement of the Clean Air Act. In Murray Energy Corporation v. Administrator of Environmental Protection Agency, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ruled on whether the federal court’s authority to review and enforce non-discretionary Clean Air Act duties extended to the EPA’s Section 321(a) duty to continuously …
The Military-Environmental Complex And The Courts: Comment To Sarah Light, Shi-Ling Hsu
The Military-Environmental Complex And The Courts: Comment To Sarah Light, Shi-Ling Hsu
Scholarly Publications
No abstract provided.
Helping Hand Tools V. United States Environmental Protection Agency, Emily A. Slike
Helping Hand Tools V. United States Environmental Protection Agency, Emily A. Slike
Public Land & Resources Law Review
When the EPA decided to treat biomass fuel sources differently within the BACT analysis, the Ninth Circuit continued Chevron’s legacy and granted the agency deference. The Bioenergy BACT may develop as science continues to evolve, but because the EPA took a “hard look” during a thorough permit review, the court held that agency issuance of new BACT guidelines was reasonable.
Regulating Ammonium Nitrate Fertilizer Under The General Duty Clause, Drew Levinson
Regulating Ammonium Nitrate Fertilizer Under The General Duty Clause, Drew Levinson
Pace Environmental Law Review
This Article explores how the Clean Air Act’s (CAA) general duty clause can be utilized to prevent catastrophes such as the explosion in West, Texas.
Part II of this Article describes the dangers associated with ammonium nitrate. More specifically, it looks at prior accidents to understand the magnitude of these unanticipated explosions. Part III looks at our current approach to regulating ammonium nitrate fertilizer and the shortcomings of this regulatory regime. Part IV provides an overview of the CAA’s general duty clause. Furthermore, it describes how the general duty clause can be applied to ammonium nitrate fertilizer facilities and the …
Legal Pathways To Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions Under Section 115 Of The Clean Air Act, Michael Burger, Ann E. Carlson, Michael B. Gerrard, Jayni Foley Hein, Jason A. Schwartz, Keith J. Benes
Legal Pathways To Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions Under Section 115 Of The Clean Air Act, Michael Burger, Ann E. Carlson, Michael B. Gerrard, Jayni Foley Hein, Jason A. Schwartz, Keith J. Benes
Faculty Scholarship
Under President Barack Obama the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has promulgated a series of greenhouse gas emissions regulations, initiating the necessary national response to climate change. However, the United States will need to find other ways to reduce GHG emissions if it is to live up to its international emissions reduction pledges, and to ultimately lead the way to a zero-carbon energy future. This paper argues that the success of the recent climate negotiations in Paris provides a strong basis for invoking a powerful tool available to help achieve the country’s climate change goals: Section 115 of the Clean Air …
A Primer: Air And Water Environmental Quality Standards In The United States, Jason J. Czarnezki
A Primer: Air And Water Environmental Quality Standards In The United States, Jason J. Czarnezki
Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications
This article, designed as a resource for environmental law professors both domestically and abroad, addresses how environmental quality standards are created, implemented, and enforced in the United States. The answers to these questions are useful to those teaching U.S. environmental law and international scholars, especially in the European Union, who are faced with the challenge of creating new environmental quality standards under both national and EU directives. It must be noted that this project is complicated by the federal system within the country, and, thus, attention must be devoted to the federal-state relationship. In fact, the major relevant statutes, the …
A Primer: Air And Water Environmental Quality Standards In The United State, Jason J. Czarnezki, Siu Tip Lam, Nadia B. Ahmad
A Primer: Air And Water Environmental Quality Standards In The United State, Jason J. Czarnezki, Siu Tip Lam, Nadia B. Ahmad
Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Slides: Details Of The Regulatory Framework: Air Quality Regulation Of Oil And Gas Development, Olivia D. Lucas
Slides: Details Of The Regulatory Framework: Air Quality Regulation Of Oil And Gas Development, Olivia D. Lucas
Water and Air Quality Issues in Oil and Gas Development: The Evolving Framework of Regulation and Management (Martz Summer Conference, June 5-6)
Presenter: Olivia D. Lucas, Esq., Counsel, Faegre Baker Daniels
22 slides
Slides: Air Monitoring And Litigation Update, John Jacus
Slides: Air Monitoring And Litigation Update, John Jacus
Air Quality Impacts from Oil and Gas Development (January 27)
Presenter: John Jacus, Partner, Davis Graham & Stubbs LLP, reviews recent litigation aimed at oil and gas development activities with respect to air emissions impacts, and also several recent and ongoing studies and ambient monitoring efforts focused upon air emissions from oil and gas activities
23 slides
The Quest For A Sustainable Future And The Dawn Of A New Journal At Michigan Law, David M. Uhlmann
The Quest For A Sustainable Future And The Dawn Of A New Journal At Michigan Law, David M. Uhlmann
Articles
When I joined the faculty of the University of Michigan Law School in 2007, the first assignment I gave students in my Environmental Law and Policy class was John McPhee's Encounters with the Archdruid. It must have seemed like a curious choice to them, particularly coming from a professor who just three months earlier had been the Chief of the Environmental Crimes Section at the U.S. Department of Justice. The book was not a dramatic tale of courtroom battles. In fact, the book was not even about the law, and the clash of environmental values it depicted pre-dated the environmental …
Slides: Energy Production And The West's Wild Places, Amy Mall
Slides: Energy Production And The West's Wild Places, Amy Mall
Shifting Baselines and New Meridians: Water, Resources, Landscapes, and the Transformation of the American West (Summer Conference, June 4-6)
Presenter: Amy Mall, Senior Policy Analyst, Natural Resources Defense Council
28 slides
Some Preliminary Thoughts On Contrasts And Convergence In Environmental And Natural Resources Law, Karin P. Sheldon
Some Preliminary Thoughts On Contrasts And Convergence In Environmental And Natural Resources Law, Karin P. Sheldon
The Future of Natural Resources Law and Policy (Summer Conference, June 6-8)
16 pages.
Includes bibliographical references
Agenda: Introduction To The Legal Foundation Of Federal Land Management, University Of Colorado Boulder. Natural Resources Law Center
Agenda: Introduction To The Legal Foundation Of Federal Land Management, University Of Colorado Boulder. Natural Resources Law Center
Introduction to the Legal Foundation of Federal Land Management (December 1-3)
Materials prepared for the course held at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado on December 1-3, 2004
Course instructors: Charles Wilkinson; Sarah Krakoff; Kathryn Mutz; Ann Morgan; Maggie Fox
Contents:
Introduction -- Agenda -- Summaries of laws -- Case studies. Travel management; Oil and gas development; Timber/fuels reduction -- How to influence agency decision makers -- Natural resource related legal and policy resources for the non-legal professional
Introduction To The Legal Foundation Of Federal Land Management, University Of Colorado Boulder. Natural Resources Law Center
Introduction To The Legal Foundation Of Federal Land Management, University Of Colorado Boulder. Natural Resources Law Center
Introduction to the Legal Foundation of Federal Land Management (December 1-3)
1 v. (various pagings) : ill., maps ; 28 cm
Materials prepared for the course held at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado on December 1-3, 2004
Course instructors: Charles Wilkinson; Sarah Krakoff; Kathryn Mutz; Ann Morgan; Maggie Fox
Contents:
Introduction -- Agenda -- Summaries of laws -- Case studies. Travel management; Oil and gas development; Timber/fuels reduction -- How to influence agency decision makers -- Natural resource related legal and policy resources for the non-legal professional
Day 4. Thursday, August 14, 2003: Trapper Mine, University Of Colorado Boulder. Natural Resources Law Center
Day 4. Thursday, August 14, 2003: Trapper Mine, University Of Colorado Boulder. Natural Resources Law Center
Energy Field Tour 2003 (August 11-16)
8 pages (includes some color illustrations).
Contains references.
Keynote Address, Rebecca Watson
Keynote Address, Rebecca Watson
Coalbed Methane Development in the Intermountain West (April 4-5)
6 pages.
Air Quality And Cbm Development, Bob Yuhnke
Air Quality And Cbm Development, Bob Yuhnke
Coalbed Methane Development in the Intermountain West (April 4-5)
5 pages (includes 1 color map).
Concluding Comments, Ayn Schmit
Concluding Comments, Ayn Schmit
Coalbed Methane Development in the Intermountain West (April 4-5)
2 pages.
The Failure Of Federal Land Planning, Steven P. Quarles
The Failure Of Federal Land Planning, Steven P. Quarles
The National Forest Management Act in a Changing Society, 1976-1996: How Well Has It Worked in the Past 20 Years?: Will It Work in the 21st Century? (September 16-18)
26 pages.
The Natural Resource Law Center Conference On “Challenging Federal Ownership And Management Public Lands And Public Benefits”, Frank H. Murkowski
The Natural Resource Law Center Conference On “Challenging Federal Ownership And Management Public Lands And Public Benefits”, Frank H. Murkowski
Challenging Federal Ownership and Management: Public Lands and Public Benefits (October 11-13)
8 pages.
The Dynamics Of Secrecy In The Environmental Impact Statement Process, Michael B. Gerrard
The Dynamics Of Secrecy In The Environmental Impact Statement Process, Michael B. Gerrard
Faculty Scholarship
The environmental impact review laws – the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and its state counterparts – are premised on the idea of full and open disclosure. The notion underlying these laws is that if the government and the public are fully informed of the impacts of and alternatives to proposed actions, they will make wise decisions about whether and how to proceed. The Freedom of Information Act and its state counterparts even more explicitly seek to open up governmental deliberations to the public. Considered together, these two types of laws would lead one to believe that secrecy has little …
Incentives For Action: Market-Based Environmental Strategies, Sheikh Sarmad Hafeez
Incentives For Action: Market-Based Environmental Strategies, Sheikh Sarmad Hafeez
LLM Theses and Essays
Societies have dealt with problems of environmental degradation for centuries, revealing a consistent concern among law makers regarding rates of natural resource consumption. More recently, the United States and other nations have begun to face increasingly perilous environment challenges such as global climate change, indoor pollution, stratospheric ozone depletion, acid rain, urban smog and the degradation of public lands.
The present work explores the environmental problems that, for centuries have plagued our planet, and that continue to threaten it, as well as different approaches to curtail these problems. The present work concludes by showing the most promising of these approaches …
Health Effects Of Air Pollutants (Sulfur Dioxide, Ozone, And Carbon Monoxide), Robert A. Bethel
Health Effects Of Air Pollutants (Sulfur Dioxide, Ozone, And Carbon Monoxide), Robert A. Bethel
Air Quality Protection in the West (November 27-28)
19 pages (includes illustrations).
Contains references.
Motor Vehicle Air Pollution Control: The Remaining Issues, Michael P. Walsh
Motor Vehicle Air Pollution Control: The Remaining Issues, Michael P. Walsh
Air Quality Protection in the West (November 27-28)
26 pages (includes illustrations).
Contains references.
Agenda: Air Quality Protection In The West, University Of Colorado Boulder. Natural Resources Law Center
Agenda: Air Quality Protection In The West, University Of Colorado Boulder. Natural Resources Law Center
Air Quality Protection in the West (November 27-28)
Conference organizers, session moderators and/or speakers included University of Colorado School of Law professor Mark S. Squillace.
Visibility, acid rain, air toxics, and urban air pollution are the topics of an upcoming Center conference on air quality in the West. The conference will be held at the School of Law in Boulder on November 27-28, 1989. Presentations will describe the nature and scope of the issues, the existing legal framework and experience with its implementation, and proposed changes in the law. Emphasis will be placed on air quality issues in the West and efforts underway to address these problems. Special …
Diminishing Views: Air Quality In Western National Parks, Christine L. Shaver
Diminishing Views: Air Quality In Western National Parks, Christine L. Shaver
Air Quality Protection in the West (November 27-28)
17 pages.
Contains references.
Transboundary Air Pollution: The Legal Framework, Mark S. Squillace
Transboundary Air Pollution: The Legal Framework, Mark S. Squillace
Air Quality Protection in the West (November 27-28)
12 pages (includes illustrations).
Contains footnotes.