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The New Agriculture: From Food Farms To Solar Farms, Jessica Owley, Amy Wilson Morris
The New Agriculture: From Food Farms To Solar Farms, Jessica Owley, Amy Wilson Morris
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Across the United States, government agencies and energy developers are looking to agricultural land for development of renewable energy. One attraction of agricultural lands is that they are already relatively ecologically impaired compared with the previous solar development sites in the California and Arizona desert that have been a major source of concern for many environmental groups-and subject to expensive mitigation requirements under the Endangered Species Act. Renewable energy development pressures are accelerating the existing loss of agricultural land, heightening concerns about food security and the economic viability of agricultural communities. California farmland is at the center of this conflict. …
Climate Change And Business Law In The United States: Using Procurement, Pay, And Policy Changes To Influence Corporate Behavior, Marcia Narine
Climate Change And Business Law In The United States: Using Procurement, Pay, And Policy Changes To Influence Corporate Behavior, Marcia Narine
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Stasis And Change In Environmental Law: The Past, Present And Future Of The Fordham Environmental Law Review, Gerald S. Dickinson
Stasis And Change In Environmental Law: The Past, Present And Future Of The Fordham Environmental Law Review, Gerald S. Dickinson
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The past twenty years of environmental law are marked as much by legislative stasis as by profound change in the way that lawyers, policymakers, and scholars interact with the field. Although no new federal legislation was passed over the past two decades, much has changed about the field of environmental law. This change is the result of a set of conceptual and legal challenges to the field posed by intellectual and policy movements that took root in the early 1990s. The intellectual and policy movements that have most profoundly shaped the field of environmental law in the past twenty years …
Tribal Sovereignty Over Water Quality, Jessica Owley