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Stars, Stripes, And Pills: The Stock Narratives That Blind, Michelle Wilde Anderson Apr 2025

Stars, Stripes, And Pills: The Stock Narratives That Blind, Michelle Wilde Anderson

West Virginia Law Review

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Labor And Environment Entwined: A Radical Green New Deal And Just Transition In Appalachia, Anne Marie Lofaso, Nicholas F. Stump Apr 2025

Labor And Environment Entwined: A Radical Green New Deal And Just Transition In Appalachia, Anne Marie Lofaso, Nicholas F. Stump

West Virginia Law Review

In this Article, Professor Lofaso and Professor Stump propose a genuinely transformative Green New Deal and Just Transition in Appalachia. The Article opens by tracing the long history of the Appalachian labor and environmental movements. Next, the Article interrogates the common contention that the Appalachian environmental and labor movements are opposed. While this contention has substantial truth, more complex forces have been at work in the region. Fossil fuel industry elites, for instance, have wielded exaggerated “jobs versus environment” rhetoric to maximize profits and quash emergent solidarities among local workers, residents, and activists. This Article contends that a key solution …


“Everybody Else Seems To Be Able To Get Help”: Rural Regulation, Access Loss, And Antigovernment Sentiment, Jennifer Sherman Apr 2025

“Everybody Else Seems To Be Able To Get Help”: Rural Regulation, Access Loss, And Antigovernment Sentiment, Jennifer Sherman

West Virginia Law Review

This Essay draws upon two decades of the author’s research on rural United States communities to explicate ways in which the regulatory state has intervened in rural areas and economies, often with the claim of protecting land, natural resources, and/or wildlife. The outcomes are frequently disastrous for the human populations of those communities and generally are not planned for or mitigated by policy. The Essay argues that rural distrust of and aversion to government oversight is not caused primarily by ideological or cultural stances, but rather is an outcome of experiences of abandonment by the agencies that are meant to …


Seriously Doe: Why A Hybrid Approach To Regulating Deer Farms Is Right For West Virginia, Jordan R. Mcminn Dec 2020

Seriously Doe: Why A Hybrid Approach To Regulating Deer Farms Is Right For West Virginia, Jordan R. Mcminn

West Virginia Law Review

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Cities And Citizens Seethe: A Case Study Of Local Efforts To Influence Natural Gas Pipeline Routing Decisions, Heidi Gorovitz Robertson Apr 2020

Cities And Citizens Seethe: A Case Study Of Local Efforts To Influence Natural Gas Pipeline Routing Decisions, Heidi Gorovitz Robertson

West Virginia Law Review

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Power And Powerlessness In The Shale Valley Schools: Fracking For Funding, Jacqueline Yahn Apr 2018

Power And Powerlessness In The Shale Valley Schools: Fracking For Funding, Jacqueline Yahn

West Virginia Law Review

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Getting Steamy With Property Law: Are Geothermal Resources A Mineral Right In West Virginia?, Joshua A. Lanham Dec 2017

Getting Steamy With Property Law: Are Geothermal Resources A Mineral Right In West Virginia?, Joshua A. Lanham

West Virginia Law Review

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"Nay" To Forced Pooling: The Stagnation Of West Virginia's Natural Gas Industry, Zachary H. Warder Dec 2017

"Nay" To Forced Pooling: The Stagnation Of West Virginia's Natural Gas Industry, Zachary H. Warder

West Virginia Law Review

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The Aftermath Of Alt V. Epa: Unresolved Tensions In Poultry Farm Pollution Control, Alison Peck Apr 2016

The Aftermath Of Alt V. Epa: Unresolved Tensions In Poultry Farm Pollution Control, Alison Peck

West Virginia Law Review

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Statutory Pooling And Unitization In West Virginia: The Case For Protecting Private Landowners, James E. Mcdaniel Sep 2015

Statutory Pooling And Unitization In West Virginia: The Case For Protecting Private Landowners, James E. Mcdaniel

West Virginia Law Review

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One Stick In The Bundle: Characterizing Nonparticipating Royalty Interests Under West Virginia Law, Andrew S. Graham, Allison J. Farrell, Lauren A. Williams, Amber M. Moore Dec 2014

One Stick In The Bundle: Characterizing Nonparticipating Royalty Interests Under West Virginia Law, Andrew S. Graham, Allison J. Farrell, Lauren A. Williams, Amber M. Moore

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


Lights Out In The Bakken: A Review And Analysis Of Flaring Regulation And Its Potential Effects On North Dakota Shale Oil Production, Monika U. Ehrman Dec 2014

Lights Out In The Bakken: A Review And Analysis Of Flaring Regulation And Its Potential Effects On North Dakota Shale Oil Production, Monika U. Ehrman

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


Local Regulation Of Hyraulic Fracturing, Jesse J. Richardson Jr. Dec 2014

Local Regulation Of Hyraulic Fracturing, Jesse J. Richardson Jr.

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


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.


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

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Feed-In Tarrifs In Turmoil, Lincoln L. Davies, Kirsten Allen Apr 2014

Feed-In Tarrifs In Turmoil, Lincoln L. Davies, Kirsten Allen

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


Drilling And Deductions: Making The Section 170(H) Conservation Easement Work In The Shale Boom Era, Michael T. Fulks Apr 2014

Drilling And Deductions: Making The Section 170(H) Conservation Easement Work In The Shale Boom Era, Michael T. Fulks

West Virginia Law Review

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Water Quality Standard Setting Under The Clean Water Act: Is It Nimble Enough To Avoid Wasteful Spending On The Wrong Goals, Christopher B. Power, Jennifer J. Hicks Apr 2014

Water Quality Standard Setting Under The Clean Water Act: Is It Nimble Enough To Avoid Wasteful Spending On The Wrong Goals, Christopher B. Power, Jennifer J. Hicks

West Virginia Law Review

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Geology, The Marcellus Shale, Experts, And Dispute Resolution, Itzchak E. Kornfeld Apr 2014

Geology, The Marcellus Shale, Experts, And Dispute Resolution, Itzchak E. Kornfeld

West Virginia Law Review

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Facts, Fiction, And Perception In Hydraulic Fracturing: Illuminating Act 13 And Robinson Township V. Commonwealth Of Pennsylvania, Joshua P. Fershee Apr 2014

Facts, Fiction, And Perception In Hydraulic Fracturing: Illuminating Act 13 And Robinson Township V. Commonwealth Of Pennsylvania, Joshua P. Fershee

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Legality Of Drilling Sideways: Horizontal Drilling And Its Future In West Virginia, Jason A. Proctor Sep 2012

The Legality Of Drilling Sideways: Horizontal Drilling And Its Future In West Virginia, Jason A. Proctor

West Virginia Law Review

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Monitoring Foreign Investment In Energy Resources: Problems And Proposals, James J. Friedberg Aug 1982

Monitoring Foreign Investment In Energy Resources: Problems And Proposals, James J. Friedberg

West Virginia Law Review

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The Public Trust Doctrine: A New Approach To Environmental Preservation, Joan E. Van Tol Apr 1979

The Public Trust Doctrine: A New Approach To Environmental Preservation, Joan E. Van Tol

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


Conservation Of Natural Resources--Ecology, Economics And Energy, Harold W. Young May 1976

Conservation Of Natural Resources--Ecology, Economics And Energy, Harold W. Young

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


Mines And Minerals--Coal Mining Rights--Waiver Of Subjacent Support, W. E. C. Feb 1951

Mines And Minerals--Coal Mining Rights--Waiver Of Subjacent Support, W. E. C.

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


Mines And Minerals--Strip Mining Rights--Construction Of Lease, T. N. C. Dec 1950

Mines And Minerals--Strip Mining Rights--Construction Of Lease, T. N. C.

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


Conservation Of Mineral Resources: A Brief Survey, C. C. Williams Jun 1941

Conservation Of Mineral Resources: A Brief Survey, C. C. Williams

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


The West Virginia Public Service Commission: Iii The Power Of The State To Prohibit The Export Of Its Natural Resources, C. A. Peairs Jr. Apr 1941

The West Virginia Public Service Commission: Iii The Power Of The State To Prohibit The Export Of Its Natural Resources, C. A. Peairs Jr.

West Virginia Law Review

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The Right Of A State To Conserve Its Natural Resources Mar 1921

The Right Of A State To Conserve Its Natural Resources

West Virginia Law Review

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The Right Of A State To Restrain The Exportation Of Natural Resources--Another Theory, Thomas Porter Hardman Jun 1920

The Right Of A State To Restrain The Exportation Of Natural Resources--Another Theory, Thomas Porter Hardman

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.