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Sensible Bytes: States Need A New Approach To Justify Their Recruitment Of Internet Data Centers, Michael F. Kaestner May 2014

Sensible Bytes: States Need A New Approach To Justify Their Recruitment Of Internet Data Centers, Michael F. Kaestner

William & Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review

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Local Land Trusts: A Comparative Analysis In Search Of An Improved Template For Land Trusts, Meagan Roach May 2014

Local Land Trusts: A Comparative Analysis In Search Of An Improved Template For Land Trusts, Meagan Roach

William & Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review

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Missed Opportunity: Excluding Carbon Emissions Markets From Comprehensive Oversight, Leo Mensah May 2014

Missed Opportunity: Excluding Carbon Emissions Markets From Comprehensive Oversight, Leo Mensah

William & Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review

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Protecting The Environment By Addressing Market Failure In Intellectual Property Law: Why Compulsory Licensing Of Green Technologies Might Make Sense In The United States Institutional Religious Exemptions: A Balancing Approach, Adam Gunderson Apr 2014

Protecting The Environment By Addressing Market Failure In Intellectual Property Law: Why Compulsory Licensing Of Green Technologies Might Make Sense In The United States Institutional Religious Exemptions: A Balancing Approach, Adam Gunderson

BYU Law Review

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Challenges For The Unfccc In Indonesia's Decentralisation, Melvin Salahuddin Apr 2014

Challenges For The Unfccc In Indonesia's Decentralisation, Melvin Salahuddin

Indonesia Law Review

This article is an examination of the implementation of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) as a Multilateral Environmental Agreement (MEA) in Indonesia. It identifies domestic challenges of the Convention in Indonesia’s decentralisation. The implementation of decentralisation policy in 2001 worsens the inherent problems faced by the Convention in Indonesia’s legal system. As a MEA, the Convention contains only general rules for the state parties and no specific legal obligation to reduce emission. The Convention also has legitimacy problems. The Indonesia’s method to transform treaties into domestic legal system is still problematic. These two challenges are worsened …

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Climate Change And Water Transfers, Jesse Reiblich, Christine A. Klein Apr 2014

Climate Change And Water Transfers, Jesse Reiblich, Christine A. Klein

Pepperdine Law Review

Climate change adaptation is all about water. Although some governments have begun to plan for severe water disruptions, many have not. The consequences of inaction, however, may be dire. As a report of the U.N. Environment Programme warns, “countries that adopt a ‘wait and see’ approach potentially risk the lives of their people, their ecosystems and their economies.” In the United States, according to one study, nearly 60% of the states are unprepared to deal with the impending crisis. Responding to this void, we offer what we believe is the first comprehensive, state-by-state survey of water allocation law and its …

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Federal Disaster Declarations And Denials: Analyzing Spatial Equity In The Implementation Of The Stafford Act, Richard Salkowe Apr 2014

Federal Disaster Declarations And Denials: Analyzing Spatial Equity In The Implementation Of The Stafford Act, Richard Salkowe

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Federal disaster declarations are authorized by the president under the provisions of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act of 1988. Prior studies have found varying levels of political influence associated with the declaration process. Factors including electoral votes, reelection years, congressional committee appointments, geographic location, and party favoritism have been implicated in claims of inequity associated with the distribution of federal disaster assistance. Compounding these concerns is evidence of recurring problems associated with disparities in the long-term recovery from disasters based on social and economic factors. This dissertation is a response to the call for further …

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(Don’T) See More Butts: Preemption And Local Regulation Of Cigarette Litter, Mike Freiberg Apr 2014

(Don’T) See More Butts: Preemption And Local Regulation Of Cigarette Litter, Mike Freiberg

Hamline Law Review

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The Future Of Wilderness Management, Peter A. Appel Apr 2014

The Future Of Wilderness Management, Peter A. Appel

Presentations and Speeches

This is a presentation by Professor Peter A. Appel on April 11, 2014, at a symposium entitled "The Wilderness Act at 50" sponsored by the Lewis and Clark Law School. Please click here to view the presentation.

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Testimony Of Robert V. Percival University Of Maryland Carey School Of Law Before The House Committee On Natural Resources Hearing On Proposed Amendments To The Endangered Species Act, April 8, 2014, Robert V. Percival Apr 2014

Testimony Of Robert V. Percival University Of Maryland Carey School Of Law Before The House Committee On Natural Resources Hearing On Proposed Amendments To The Endangered Species Act, April 8, 2014, Robert V. Percival

Congressional Testimony

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Wildearth Guardians V. Jewell, 738 F.3d 298 (D.C. Cir. 2013), Ross Keogh Apr 2014

Wildearth Guardians V. Jewell, 738 F.3d 298 (D.C. Cir. 2013), Ross Keogh

Public Land & Resources Law Review

As part of a comprehensive strategy to keep coal “in the ground,” environmental plaintiffs challenged the BLM’s leasing of federally owned coal tracts in the Powder River Basin in 2010 on climate change grounds. WildEarth Guardians was the first suit to reach a federal circuit court, where the District of Columbia Circuit Court affirmed that the BLM’s environmental analysis of the climate change impacts of the leased coal was adequate under NEPA. Notably, in reversing the district court, the circuit court found that the plaintiffs had procedural standing.

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Taking On Water: The Supreme Court Rejects A Temporary Flooding Exception To Fifth Amendment Notes, Elizabeth Judy Apr 2014

Taking On Water: The Supreme Court Rejects A Temporary Flooding Exception To Fifth Amendment Notes, Elizabeth Judy

Journal of Environmental and Sustainability Law

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Carbon Capture And Storage: How Bad Policy Is By-Passing Environmental Safeguards, Allison Kole Apr 2014

Carbon Capture And Storage: How Bad Policy Is By-Passing Environmental Safeguards, Allison Kole

Journal of Environmental and Sustainability Law

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Discharge Of A Pollutant: The Clean Water Act Definition That Has Caused Much Confusion, Arsenio L. Mims Apr 2014

Discharge Of A Pollutant: The Clean Water Act Definition That Has Caused Much Confusion, Arsenio L. Mims

Journal of Environmental and Sustainability Law

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Table Of Contents Apr 2014

Table Of Contents

Journal of Environmental and Sustainability Law

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Europe Should Dump Cap-And-Trade In Favor Of Carbon Tax With Reinvestment To Reduce Global Emissions, Stephen Sewalk Apr 2014

Europe Should Dump Cap-And-Trade In Favor Of Carbon Tax With Reinvestment To Reduce Global Emissions, Stephen Sewalk

Washington and Lee Journal of Energy, Climate, and the Environment

It is time for the European Union to dump the EU-ETS cap-and trade system, as it is not working. By adopting a carbon tax with reinvestment, the European Union (EU) could reduce its economy-wide emissions by forty-eight percent (and emissions from buildings and utilities by sixty-five percent) within twenty years while automatically putting in place a border tax adjustment. By adopting the carbon tax with reinvestment, the EU's trading partners would be heavily encouraged to adopt the same system, thereby dramatically reducing global emissions. This adoption would occur much like the EU adopting the Value-Added Tax and 150 countries following …

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Climate Engineering Field Research: The Favorable Setting Of International Environmental Law, Jesse Reynolds Apr 2014

Climate Engineering Field Research: The Favorable Setting Of International Environmental Law, Jesse Reynolds

Washington and Lee Journal of Energy, Climate, and the Environment

As forecasts for climate change and its impacts have become more dire, climate engineering proposals have come under increasing consideration and are presently moving toward field trials. This article examines the relevant international environmental law, distinguishing between climate engineering research and deployment. It also emphasizes the climate change context of these proposals and the enabling function of law. Extant international environmental law generally favors such field tests, in large part because, even though field trials may present uncertain risks to humans and the environment, climate engineering may reduce the greater risks of climate change. Notably, this favorable legal setting is …

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Capital Rigidities, Latent Externalities, Shi-Ling Hsu Apr 2014

Capital Rigidities, Latent Externalities, Shi-Ling Hsu

Scholarly Publications

Capital, one of two fundamental inputs to production, is critical to economic growth. As such, legal rules and institutions generally seek to create more of it, and they also seek to protect existing capital from policy changes. However, capital is often durable, and during its natural life, information may emerge pointing to negative externalities resulting from operation of that capital. Legal rules and institutions, in seeking to stimulate and sustain economic growth by promoting and protecting capital, thus tend to induce the creation of excess capital. This abundance of capital creates excess resistance to new regulation or policy reform, as …

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Table Of Contents Apr 2014

Table Of Contents

Washington and Lee Journal of Energy, Climate, and the Environment

No abstract provided.

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Oil And Gas Law: From Habendum To Patent Law, Emir Crowne, Barbero C. Michael Apr 2014

Oil And Gas Law: From Habendum To Patent Law, Emir Crowne, Barbero C. Michael

Washington and Lee Journal of Energy, Climate, and the Environment

This article outlines and addresses the specific patent issues affecting the oil and gas industry. In so doing, it argues that the business realities of the industry, coupled with its fast-paced environment, make it a perfect example of why the current patent prohibition against professional skills and business methods must be reformed.

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Masthead & Front Matter Apr 2014

Masthead & Front Matter

Washington and Lee Journal of Energy, Climate, and the Environment

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The Walking Dead Or Weekend At Bernie’S? How The Public Trust Doctrine Threatens Alternative Energy Development, Michael Julius Motta Jr. Apr 2014

The Walking Dead Or Weekend At Bernie’S? How The Public Trust Doctrine Threatens Alternative Energy Development, Michael Julius Motta Jr.

Washington and Lee Journal of Energy, Climate, and the Environment

One of the oldest doctrines of environmental law, the public trust doctrine, is sufficiently ambiguous that it risks threatening widespread adoptions of alternative energy sources such as wind energy. Because of this, the public trust doctrine threatens the protection of the environment in the name of protection of the environment. Yet, the public trust doctrine and future energy policy should be complementary and not exclusionary of each other. In light of this, whether an agency has public trust authority should be determined based on six factors: the legal authority of state fiduciaries; due diligence by state fiduciaries in determining if …

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Upwind Battle: The Epa Tests The Limits Of Its Statutory Authority Again, An, Elizabeth Moeller Apr 2014

Upwind Battle: The Epa Tests The Limits Of Its Statutory Authority Again, An, Elizabeth Moeller

Journal of Environmental and Sustainability Law

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Missouri River Reservoirs In A Century Of Climate Change: National Or Local Resource?, John H. Davidson Apr 2014

Missouri River Reservoirs In A Century Of Climate Change: National Or Local Resource?, John H. Davidson

Journal of Environmental and Sustainability Law

No abstract provided.

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Epa, Outer Continental Shelf Sources, And Deference Resisting Environmental Destricution On Indigenous Lands, The, Sarah Melz Apr 2014

Epa, Outer Continental Shelf Sources, And Deference Resisting Environmental Destricution On Indigenous Lands, The, Sarah Melz

Journal of Environmental and Sustainability Law

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Storage Portfolio Standards: Incentivising Green Eenrgy Storage, Victoria Johnston Apr 2014

Storage Portfolio Standards: Incentivising Green Eenrgy Storage, Victoria Johnston

Journal of Environmental and Sustainability Law

No abstract provided.

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Captive Consumer Paradox: The D.C. Circuit's Attempt To Bring Symmetry To Clean Air Act Incentives For Cellulosic Biofuel Production, A, John W. Shikles Apr 2014

Captive Consumer Paradox: The D.C. Circuit's Attempt To Bring Symmetry To Clean Air Act Incentives For Cellulosic Biofuel Production, A, John W. Shikles

Journal of Environmental and Sustainability Law

No abstract provided.

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Law And Governance Of The Great Lakes, Noah D. Hall, Benjamin C. Houston Apr 2014

Law And Governance Of The Great Lakes, Noah D. Hall, Benjamin C. Houston

Law Faculty Research Publications

No abstract provided.

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Say What? The Resolution Of Ambiguous Written Agreements In West Virginia, James Matthew Davis Apr 2014

Say What? The Resolution Of Ambiguous Written Agreements In West Virginia, James Matthew Davis

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.

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Unringing The Bell: Time For Epa To Reconsider Its Greenhouse Gas Endangerment Finding, David Yaussy, Elizabeth Turgeon Apr 2014

Unringing The Bell: Time For Epa To Reconsider Its Greenhouse Gas Endangerment Finding, David Yaussy, Elizabeth Turgeon

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.

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