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Protecting The Seas From Nuclear Pollution, George D. Haimbaugh Jr. Dec 1981

Protecting The Seas From Nuclear Pollution, George D. Haimbaugh Jr.

South Carolina Law Review

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Cogeneration: A Successful Response To The Energy Crisis?, Charles M. Pratt Jan 1981

Cogeneration: A Successful Response To The Energy Crisis?, Charles M. Pratt

Fordham Urban Law Journal

This article examines the concept of cogeneration, a term for the simultaneous production of both electricity and other useful energy in a single facility by a cascading use of heat energy. It analyzes the rise of cogeneration through the lens of the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 ("PURPA"), enacted by Congress to improve the distribution of electric energy and encourage the conservation of resources, as well as the efforts of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ("FERC") to encourage cogeneration. This article discusses a number of the issues raised and left unresolved by this federal policy of encouraging the …


Introduction: Emerging International Environmental Law, Nicholas A. Robinson Jan 1981

Introduction: Emerging International Environmental Law, Nicholas A. Robinson

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

This Introduction notes the emerging mandate for international environmental law and the concurrent problems of implementation. It focuses on two particular applications of this new mandate: the United States-Panama Joint Environment Commission for the Panama Canal, and the suggested role of the United Nations Environment Programme in developing a system of global environmental hazard alerts.


Cogeneration: A Successful Response To The Energy Crisis?, Charles M. Pratt Jan 1981

Cogeneration: A Successful Response To The Energy Crisis?, Charles M. Pratt

Fordham Urban Law Journal

This article examines the concept of cogeneration, a term for the simultaneous production of both electricity and other useful energy in a single facility by a cascading use of heat energy. It analyzes the rise of cogeneration through the lens of the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 ("PURPA"), enacted by Congress to improve the distribution of electric energy and encourage the conservation of resources, as well as the efforts of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ("FERC") to encourage cogeneration. This article discusses a number of the issues raised and left unresolved by this federal policy of encouraging the …


Nuclear Accidents: Judicial Review Of The Nrc's Duty To Issue A Health Warning, Valerie Acerra Jan 1981

Nuclear Accidents: Judicial Review Of The Nrc's Duty To Issue A Health Warning, Valerie Acerra

Fordham Urban Law Journal

This article focuses on the increasing effects of carcinogens and toxins into the environment on the public health, particularly the hazards of radiation. Utilizing the Three Mile Island nuclear power accident as a case study, it examines the theoretical battles over nuclear power production. It analyzes whether residents living near the Three Mile Island facility were entitled to a health warning due to the radiation emitted by the accident. The article proposes that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission should be the body that issues such a warning, and examines whether the issuance of a health warning is a nondiscretionary duty of …


Historic Preservation Law: The Metes & Bounds Of A New Field, Nicholas A. Robinson Jan 1981

Historic Preservation Law: The Metes & Bounds Of A New Field, Nicholas A. Robinson

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

Historic Preservation Law has come to mean that combination of regulations, common-law property principles, tax incentives, and adjective law in administrative proceedings, governing historic sites and property within the United States. Although Congress first recognized a need to conserve the nation's wealth of historic amenities in 1906 when it adopted The Antiquities Act, it was only with the nation's bicentennial that the volume and diversity of laws designed to maintain, protect and preserve historic America grew to the point where it could be said that a new field of law had emerged. The symposium which follows this essay represents the …