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To Drill Or Not To Drill: The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge V. The "Need" For U.S. Energy Independence, Sara N. Pasquinelli
To Drill Or Not To Drill: The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge V. The "Need" For U.S. Energy Independence, Sara N. Pasquinelli
Golden Gate University Law Review
This Comment discusses the complexity of the issues surrounding the ANWR debate, from agency positions on drilling to alternative energy sources. Additionally, this Comment proposes the formation of an ANWR Consulting Group to specifically address the uniqueness of ANWR as an amazing wilderness area that should be preserved even though it happens to have oil beneath its surface.
International Investment, Expropriation And Environmental Protection, J. Martin Wagner
International Investment, Expropriation And Environmental Protection, J. Martin Wagner
Golden Gate University Law Review
After a brief description of the relationship between foreign investment and the environment in Part II, the Article will describe the protection against expropriation provided by international agreements, briefly discussing bilateral investment agreements and then detailing the protection provided by NAFTA and the MAI in Part III. Part IV will then describe the challenges to environmental laws that have been brought under NAFTA's investment chapter. Next, Part V will examine the treatment of indirect expropriation under U.S. and international law. Part VI will demonstrate that, under NAFTA and international expropriation and environmental law, environmental measures should not normally give rise …
Tailoring Citizen Enforcement To An Expanding Clean Water Act: The San Francisco Baykeeper Model, Michael R. Lozeau
Tailoring Citizen Enforcement To An Expanding Clean Water Act: The San Francisco Baykeeper Model, Michael R. Lozeau
Golden Gate University Law Review
This article focuses on the Act's storm water pollution control program as it is being implemented in California. In particular, the article focuses on that aspect of the storm water regulations where the rubber meets the road - the enforcement arena - and on the ever more important role of citizen enforcers as the Act reaches out to pollution problems that call on pollution control and prevention actions by tens of thousands of industrial and municipal facilities in California, and hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of facilities nationwide. The article includes three case studies demonstrating how citizen enforcement actions can …