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Slides: Potential Climate Change Impacts On California, Fran Pavley
Slides: Potential Climate Change Impacts On California, Fran Pavley
Climate Change and the Future of the American West: Exploring the Legal and Policy Dimensions (Summer Conference, June 7-9)
Presenter: Fran Pavley, California Assemblywoman.
1 page and 17 slides.
Assembly Member Fran Pavley will discuss efforts in California to reduce global warming pollution. She will provide information on her landmark bill, AB 1493, which requires automakers to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from cars and light trucks, and also talk about her current legislation, AB 32 (Núñez-Pavley) to require a statewide cap on greenhouse gases and mandatory reporting from large-scale emitters.
The Epa's Risky Reasoning, Cary Coglianese, Gary E. Marchant
The Epa's Risky Reasoning, Cary Coglianese, Gary E. Marchant
All Faculty Scholarship
Regulators must rely on science to understand problems and predict the consequences of regulatory actions, but science by itself cannot justify public policy decisions. We review the Environmental Protection Agency's efforts to justify recent changes to its National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for ozone and particulate matter, showing how the agency was able to cloak its policy judgments under the guise of scientific objectivity. By doing so, the EPA evaded accountability for a shifting and incoherent set of policy positions that will have major implications for public health and the economy. For example, even though EPA claimed to base …
In The Beginning God Created The Public Trust Doctrine?, Ralph W. Johnson
In The Beginning God Created The Public Trust Doctrine?, Ralph W. Johnson
Water as a Public Resource: Emerging Rights and Obligations (Summer Conference, June 1-3)
15 pages.
Jurisdictional And Institutional Issues: Public Lands, Robert B. Keiter
Jurisdictional And Institutional Issues: Public Lands, Robert B. Keiter
External Development Affecting the National Parks: Preserving "The Best Idea We Ever Had" (September 14-16)
13 pages.
Contains references.
Protecting National Park Resources: Wildlife, George Cameron Coggins
Protecting National Park Resources: Wildlife, George Cameron Coggins
External Development Affecting the National Parks: Preserving "The Best Idea We Ever Had" (September 14-16)
28 pages.
Contains references.
Pollution In Parks: A Publication Of The National Park Service, Richard H. Briceland
Pollution In Parks: A Publication Of The National Park Service, Richard H. Briceland
External Development Affecting the National Parks: Preserving "The Best Idea We Ever Had" (September 14-16)
28 pages (includes illustrations).
Contains references.
Legal Issues Associated With Protecting Park Resources: Air Quality And Related Values, Molly N. Ross
Legal Issues Associated With Protecting Park Resources: Air Quality And Related Values, Molly N. Ross
External Development Affecting the National Parks: Preserving "The Best Idea We Ever Had" (September 14-16)
109 pages.
Contains references.
Contains 5 attachments:
1) United States Department of the Interior Memorandum, September 20, 1985: Protection of National Park System Units from the Adverse Effects of Air Pollution.
2) Library of Congress Congressional Research Service Memorandum, November 19, 1985: Comments on Department of the Interior Memorandum of September 20, 1985 Entitled "Protection of National Park System Units from the Adverse Effects of Air Pollution."
3) United States Department of the Interior Memorandum, May 15, 1986: Legal Authority of the Secretary to Protect the Air Quality and Related Values of NPS Units from Adverse Impacts of Surface Coal …
Agenda: External Development Affecting The National Parks: Preserving "The Best Idea We Ever Had", University Of Colorado Boulder. Natural Resources Law Center
Agenda: External Development Affecting The National Parks: Preserving "The Best Idea We Ever Had", University Of Colorado Boulder. Natural Resources Law Center
External Development Affecting the National Parks: Preserving "The Best Idea We Ever Had" (September 14-16)
Conference organizers and/or faculty included University of Colorado School of Law professors Lawrence J. MacDonnell and Daniel Magraw.
The conference will be held at the Aspen Lodge, adjacent to Rocky Mountain National Park near Estes Park, Colorado.
It was Wallace Stegner who called the national parks "the best idea we ever had." The continuing increases in usage attest to their popularity. National parks are created to preserve areas of special scenic and cultural value for enjoyment and use. Managing the parks in a manner that protects the important values and purposes for which they were created presents important and difficult …