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Natural Resources And Environmental Law Newsletter, Fall 2019, Natural Resources And Environmental Law Program
Natural Resources And Environmental Law Newsletter, Fall 2019, Natural Resources And Environmental Law Program
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Table of Contents:
- Emerita Professor Eileen Gauna Receives American Bar Association Award
- UNM Hires Joseph A. Schremmer as Leon Karelitz Oil & Gas Law Professor
- Faculty Scholarship and Presentations
- NREL Clinic Proposes Low Income Energy Efficiency Bill, Participates in Methane Regulation Expert Workgroup
- Reed D. Benson Elected to Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation Board of Directors
- Alumna Stefanie Tsosie Hired for Tribal Partnerships Program at Earthjustice
- 2019 Graduate Ann Brethour Gains National Recognition
Book Review: Jonathan P. Thompson, River Of Lost Souls: The Science, Politics, And Green Behind The Gold King Mine Disaster (2018), Clifford J. Villa
Book Review: Jonathan P. Thompson, River Of Lost Souls: The Science, Politics, And Green Behind The Gold King Mine Disaster (2018), Clifford J. Villa
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On August 5, 2015, contractors for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) investigating the Gold King Mine in southwestern Colorado accidently released some three million gallons of contaminated water into the Animas River, triggering weeks of front-page headlines, months of congressional hearings, and now years of litigation. River of Lost Souls: The Science, Politics, and Greed Behind the Gold King Mine Disaster, a new book by Jonathan P. Thompson, suggests by its title a human folly behind this “disaster” much broader and deeper than one tragic accident wrought by EPA contractors. On this thesis, Thompson certainly delivers. However, what …