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Resource Law Notes Newsletter, No. 49, Spring Issue, Mar. 2000, University Of Colorado Boulder. Natural Resources Law Center

Resource Law Notes: The Newsletter of the Natural Resources Law Center (1984-2002)

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Control And Governance Of Transmission Organizations In The Restructured Electricity Industry, Charles H. Koch, Jr.

Florida State University Law Review

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The Lining Of The All-American Canal: The Forgotten Voices, Alfonso Cortez-Lara, Maria Rosa Garcia-Acevedo

Natural Resources Journal

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The La Paz Symposium On Transboundary Groundwater Management On The U.S.-Mexico Border, Stephen P. Mumme

Natural Resources Journal

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Networkindustries.Gov.Reg, Joseph P. Tomain

Faculty Articles and Other Publications

This essay is part of a Symposium entitled "American Regulatory Policy: Have We Found A Third Way?" The paper looks at the changes in the regulation of what were once called public utilities and are now called network industries. Traditional regulation is described and compared with the current form and structure of the regulation of these industries. The paper makes the argument that, even though deregulation is occurring consistent with Third Way thinking, it is occurring not only because of changes in world global economic views. Rather, it is changing because of what traditional regulation has accomplished.

Traditional regulation constructed …

Resource Law Notes Newsletter, No. 48, Winter Issue, Jan. 2000, University Of Colorado Boulder. Natural Resources Law Center

Resource Law Notes: The Newsletter of the Natural Resources Law Center (1984-2002)

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Royalty Valuation: Should Overriding Royalty Interests And Nonparticipating Royalty Interests, Whether Payable In Value Or In Kind, Be Subject To The Same Valuation Standard As Lease Royalty, Owen L. Anderson

Faculty Articles

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Contractors' State License Board, Karla Dawn Bell, J. D. Fellmeth

California Regulatory Law Reporter

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Public Utilities Commission, Sapna Iyer, Rebecca A. Richards, Monisha Ann Coelho, J. D. Fellmeth

California Regulatory Law Reporter

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The Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District's Protected Water Rights: Legal, Beneficial, Or Against The Public Interest In New Mexico, Lisa D. Brown

Natural Resources Journal

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Deregulation In Maine: The Why And How, William M. Nugent

Richmond Journal of Law & Technology

Maine's retail electricity rates - although (on average) the lowest in New England - were in 1997 (the year Maine passed its restructuring legislation) nearly 40 percent higher than the national average. Industrial customers paid rates 40.4 percent above the U.S. average; commercial 36.9 percent more, and residents (i.e., voters) a whopping 51.3 percent more than residential consumers across the country. Place the risks of investment decisions in the market, where they belong. Technological developments (paralleled by changes in national regulatory policy) have erased the natural monopoly nature of the general portion of the electricity industry. Since regulators are not …

Electric Choice In Pennsylvania, Brian D. Crowe

Richmond Journal of Law & Technology

Implementing Electric Choice

Market Power And Antitrust Issues In The Restructuring Of The Electric Industry, David L. Cruthirds

Richmond Journal of Law & Technology

Dynegy is one of the country's leading energy merchants - formerly NGC Corporation and Natural Gas Clearinghouse.

Pennsylvania's Record, John Hanger

Richmond Journal of Law & Technology

John Hanger's outline of the Pennsylvania energy market.

Antitrust Issues Meet Natural Gas & Electric System Reliability Issue In A Competitive Marketplace, Mark T. Maassel

Richmond Journal of Law & Technology

Mr. Maassel's outline for his speech.

From The Back Office To The Front Lines, David F. Koogler

Richmond Journal of Law & Technology

Communication between parties in the emerging era of electric utility deregulation and competition is critical. In the past, communication within the electric utility business was simple and involved low-tech solutions such as voice communication over telephones, fax machines, computer-to-computer communications over modems, and even "snail mail."

Global Climate Change Kyoto Protocol Implementation: Legal Frameworks For Implementing Clean Energy Solutions, Richard L. Ottinger

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

This paper describes the measures that have been and can be taken and the legal mechanisms by which successes have been achieved in reducing greenhouse gases. Examples are given of success stories from around the world, but these examples are just demonstrative. Many hundreds of programs have been pursued successfully around the world in both industrial and developing countries. What does emerge, however, is clear evidence that global warming can be effectively addressed and that many significant steps have been taken profitably in both the public and private sectors, offering significant business, export and job opportunities, and that much can …

Climate Change: The Next Dimension, Lakshman Guruswamy

Publications

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Universal Service In Competitive Retail Electric Power Markets: Whither The Duty To Serve?, Jim Rossi

Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications

This article addresses whether traditional service obligations can coexist with retail competition. A rationale often given for universal service obligations in the telecommunications industry is that universal service, by promoting interconnectivity, enhances network system benefits for all customers. While the network economies argument may have worked to sustain universal service in the face of telecommunications deregulation, it is tenuous when applied to the natural gas and electricity industries. Many reformers look askance at the duty to serve in competitive retail utility service markets, often pointing to conflict between retail competition in electricity and the duty to serve. This article argues, …

Resource Law Notes Newsletter, No. 47, Fall Issue, 1999, University Of Colorado Boulder. Natural Resources Law Center

Resource Law Notes: The Newsletter of the Natural Resources Law Center (1984-2002)

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Brief For Appellee New Union: Eleventh Annual Pace National Environmental Moot Court Competition, Patrick M. Pericak, Bill Thurston, Eric Morrow

Pace Environmental Law Review

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Brief For The Appellee, Friends Of The Roaritan, Inc., Measuring Brief: Eleventh Annual Pace National Environmental Moot Court Competition, Thomas J. Cosgrove, Sanne H. Knudsen, Vivek S. Sankaran

Pace Environmental Law Review

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Bench Brief: Eleventh Annual Pace National Environmental Moot Court Competition, Shelley Eccleson

Pace Environmental Law Review

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Resource Law Notes Newsletter, No. 46, Spring Issue, 1999, University Of Colorado Boulder. Natural Resources Law Center

Resource Law Notes: The Newsletter of the Natural Resources Law Center (1984-2002)

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Resource Law Notes Newsletter, No. 45, Winter Issue, 1999, University Of Colorado Boulder. Natural Resources Law Center

Resource Law Notes: The Newsletter of the Natural Resources Law Center (1984-2002)

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Network Industries, Third Party Access And Competition Law In The European Union, Carlos Lapuerta, Boaz Moselle

Northwestern Journal of International Law & Business

This article addresses a set of issues that arise in the context of market liberalization for a special and important class of industries, the so-called "network industries," which include electricity, natural gas, rail transportation and telecommunications. Each of these industries combines activities that are potentially competitive, such as generation of electricity, with ones that are naturally monopolistic, such as transmission of electricity. This combination produces a unique set of challenges to competition law and policy in designing a market structure and regulatory framework which maximize the benefits of liberalization while effectively controlling any tendencies to monopolistic abuse. We analyze "Chicago …

A Critique Of Light-Handed Regulation: The Case Of British Gas February 1999, Paul Carpenter, Carlos Lapuerta

Northwestern Journal of International Law & Business

Although attractive in theory, the implementation of light-handed regulation in the United Kingdom has faced several problems. First, light-handed regulation has not worked as anticipated to avoid the need for lengthy regulatory proceedings. Second, light-handed regulation has unintentionally created inefficient incentives for regulated companies. Third, light-handed regulation has not successfully constrained the monopoly power of incumbents. We illustrate the problems with light-handed regulation principally by reference to the experience of British Gas. The British government established the Office of Gas Regulation, known as Ofgas, to regulate British Gas after its privatization. However, Ofgas was not able to set reasonable prices …

In Memoriam: Albert E. Utton, Natural Resources Journal

Natural Resources Journal

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The Evolution Of The Electric Utility Industry, Richard Pomp

Faculty Articles and Papers

This article examines the evolution of the electric utility industry in three parts: I. Discovery, Innovation, and Expansion; II. Increased Demand, Improved Technology, and Increased Regulation; and III. Diversification, Regionalism, and Deregulation.

Part I begins with an examination of how the electric industry came to be, starting with incandescent light. The power industry at this time consisted of three segments that still exist today; generation, transmission, and distribution. Municipalities initially issued franchises and charters to power cities, which resulted in fierce competition to provide power at the lowest rates. Through 1880 to 1900, electricity-use increased rapidly, attracting private companies to …

Beyond Yucca Mountain: Split Liability Drives Action For Interim Nuclear Waste Storage, Amy L. Stein

UF Law Faculty Publications

After fifteen years and six billion dollars, the United States still lacks a viable long-term solution to the mounting levels of high-level nuclear waste scattered across the nation in 68 sites. The Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 (“NWPA”) and its 1987 Amendments have driven regulators to approve Yucca Mountain, Nevada, for burial of the 37,000 metric tons of nuclear waste in need of a final resting place. In the NWPA, Congress set January 31, 1998 as the deadline by which the Department of Energy (“DOE”) was to dispose of the utilities' nuclear waste. However, litigation challenges, scientific uncertainty, and …