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Colorado, Diana S. Prulhiere, David R. Little

Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal

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Arkansas, Andreah Riedel

Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal

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Alaska, Steven A. Rhodes, Zachary H. Barrett

Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal

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Editor's Introduction & Front Pages, Hank Herren

Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal

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The Paradox Of Plenty: Why Guyana’S Local Content Law Needs A Reality Check, Vivian M. Williams

Publications and Research

The effectiveness of coercive local content requirements to the development of resource rich developing countries is an area attracting increasing global attention. Local content requirements are especially popular in the extractive sector though empirical studies show that they do not fulfill their intended purpose. Now recognized as the world's fastest growing economy after becoming an oil producing country, Guyana has passed a local content law. The real concern is not merely whether local content requirements fail to fulfill their objectives but whether they create market distortions that lead to the resource curse. This issue was addressed by Baruch's Adjunct Assistant …

Appeal No. 1011: John M. Brown & Debra S. Brown V. Division Of Oil & Gas Resources Management And Ascent Resources ---Utica, Llc., Ohio Oil & Gas Commission

Ohio Oil & Gas Commission Decisions

Review of Chief's Order 2022-92; Lori NE SMF JF Unit (Ascent Resources -- Utica, LLC)

Appeal No. 0995: Sharon & Jerome Kallay V. Division Of Oil & Gas Resources Management, Ohio Oil & Gas Commission

Ohio Oil & Gas Commission Decisions

Review of Chief's Order 2021-51, Denoon Sourth Unit (EPA Ohio, LLC)

The Unfulfilled Promise Of Indian Water Rights Settlements, Heather Tanana, Elisabeth Paxton Parker

Utah Law Faculty Scholarship

As climate change threatens an already-scarce resource, quantifying tribal water rights is critical to providing additional certainty to an uncertain future. In order to protect the future of their communities, it is critical that tribal water rights move from merely theoretical paper rights to actualized wet water rights.

Facing New Mexico's 21st Century Water Challenges; A Report Of The New Mexico Water Policy And Infrastructure Task Force, New Mexico Water And Infrastructure Task Force N/A

Publications

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Energy Law—The Green Squeeze: Net Metering’S Negative Externalities And Societal Consequences For The Poor, Steven Cox

University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review

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West Virginia V. Epa, Amanda Spear, Amanda Spear

Public Land & Resources Law Review

The EPA created the Clean Power Plan in an effort to reduce the amount of greenhouse gas emissions generated by coal-fired power plants. The EPA determined that the Best System of Emission Reduction for existing coal-fired power plants included generation shifting methods, meaning a shift from coal to cleaner sources. The Supreme Court held, under the major questions doctrine, that Congress had not intended for the EPA to use generation shifting methods for the Best System of Emission Reduction and that the EPA had exceeded its authority in doing so. This note will explore how the decision may impact administrative …

W. Org. Res. Councils, Et Al. V. U.S. Bureau Of Land Mgmt., Sawyer J. Connelly, Sawyer J. Connelly

Public Land & Resources Law Review

The United States District Court for the District of Montana granted Plaintiffs summary judgment against BLM and the State of Wyoming. The court ruled that BLM violated NEPA and the APA because it failed to consider alternative leasing programs and the broad downstream impacts of coal, oil, and gas leasing in two Powder River Basin resource management plans. This decision followed WORC I & II, in which the court remanded the same plans to BLM to correct deficiencies. Following BLM’s revisions, Plaintiffs again sued in this case, arguing the revisions were still deficient under NEPA.

Characterizing Legal Implications For The Use Of Transboundary Aquifers, Gabriel Eckstein

Faculty Scholarship

Groundwater resources that traverse political boundaries are becoming increasingly important sources of freshwater in international and intranational arenas worldwide. This is a direct extension of the growing need for new sources of freshwater, as well as the impact that excessive extraction, pollution, climate change, and other anthropogenic activities have had on surface waters. It is also a function of the growing realization that groundwater respects no political boundaries, and that aquifers traverse jurisdictional lines at all levels of political geography.

Due to this growing awareness, questions pertaining to responsibility and liability are now being raised in relation to the use, …

Do Not Put All Your Eggs In One Basket: Social Perspectives On Desalination And Water Recycling In Israel, Gretchen Sneegas, Lucas Seghezzo, Christian Brannstrom, Wendy Jepson, Gabriel Eckstein

Faculty Scholarship

Israel has set ambitious goals in terms of the widespread adoption of desalination and water recycling technologies. Policymakers in Israel consider these technologies as the key to improve urban water security but knowledge of stakeholder views on this policy approach is not well established. We deployed the Q-methodology, a qualitative–quantitative approach, to empirically determine social perspectives on desalination and water recycling across a wide range of stakeholders in the Israeli water sector. We identified the following four distinctive social perspectives: (1) desalination should be the option of last resort; (2) desalination is moving us to an infinite resource; (3) equating …

Emerging Best Practices In International Atmospheric Trust Case Law, Rachel M. Pemberton, Michael Blumm

Utah Law Review

With climate change litigation proliferating throughout the world, a substantial body of case law is emerging. As part of a project of the IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law's Climate Change Specialist Group, this Article, a version of which will be included in a “Judicial Handbook on Climate Litigation,” explains the public trust doctrine’s influence on climate change litigation internationally. We select what we view as judicial “best practices” as a kind of restatement of international atmospheric trust law in 2022. International atmospheric trust law is at the forefront of many best practices, as state and federal courts in the …

Green Crimes In The Empire State: Analyzing The Criminal Enforcement Of Environmental Law In New York, Joshua Ozymy, Melissa Jarrell Ozymy

Pace Environmental Law Review

Ensuring compliance with federal and state environmental laws and deterring future offenses can require the application of criminal enforcement tools. Yet we have a limited understanding of how the criminal enforcement of environmental laws has progressed historically in The Empire State. To explore this phenomenon, we undertake content analysis of federal prosecution summaries for all environmental crime prosecutions stemming from U.S. Environmental Protection Agency criminal investigations from 1983 to 2019. We explore which federal environmental laws were violated, determine which charging statutes were used, analyze sentencing patterns, and illustrate the broader themes that emerge in such prosecutions over 37 years. …

Cumulative Impact Analysis In Nepa Climate Assessments, Fred Mauhs

Pace Environmental Law Review

This article argues that CI analysis is a critical tool for addressing global warming. This is because the largest anthropogenic sources of greenhouse gas (“GHG”) emissions in the U.S. each contributes a vanishingly small portion of global GHG emissions, which alone cannot rise to NEPA’s threshold of “significance” requiring a “detailed statement…on the environmental impact of the proposed action,”i.e., an environmental impact statement (EIS). Yet there is no pollution today in greater need of assessment and understanding than GHG emissions, given the urgency of the impending catastrophe that global warming could mean for our planet.

Silent Spring Revisited – Is It Time To Ban Lead? An Argument For A Federal Ban Of The Use Of Lead Ammunition For Hunting Game Pursuant To The Endangered Species Act, Jaclyn Mcbain Cohen

Pace Environmental Law Review

This note will explore EPA’s authority under the Endangered Species Act (“ESA”) to promulgate regulations banning the use of lead ammunition for any purpose. Section II discusses the impact of lead on the environment and wildlife and demonstrates how even small amounts of lead discharged into the environment through hunting practices can have lethal effects on wildlife, especially scavengers, such as the California condor and the grizzly bear. Section III discusses the current regulations that exist to control the discharge of lead into the environment from the use of other common substances, such as paint and gasoline, demonstrating that the …

Could A More Limited Environmental Goods Agreement Resolve Continued Issues In Cities Compliance?, Andrew Coccoli

William & Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review

This Note will adopt an economic perspective while advocating for the most sustainable practices in natural resources management. It will first conduct a series of case studies of natural resources for which there is transnational or international demand, but unsustainable management. While CITES-listed resources will be considered with particular attention, unlisted and more conventional resources will also be considered. In its second part, this Note will consider mechanisms currently available in international trade to accommodate environmental progress, then will set forth various new measures the WTO could adopt to incentivize sustainable management of the Part I resources. Part III will …

The Environmental, Social, Governance (Esg) Debate Emerges From The Soil Of Climate Denial, Lawrence J. Trautman, Neal Newman

Faculty Scholarship

It has been almost six decades since Rachel Carson’s ominous warning of pending environmental disaster. During 2019 the United Nations requested urgent action from world leaders, given that “just over a decade is all that remains to stop irreversible damage from climate change.” With every passing year, damage resulting from destructive climate change causes increased pain, suffering, death and massive property loss. During 2020 and 2021 alone, severe weather events have included: destructive fires in California; record breaking freeze, power outage, and threat to the electrical grid in Texas; continuation of disruptive drought in U.S. Western states; and record-breaking high …

Dislocating The Separation Of Powers State ‘Thumb’ On The Biden Sustainability Initiatives & Law, Steven Ferrey

Suffolk University Law School Faculty Works

President Biden enacted his unprecedented large Infrastructure law to make what President Biden calls a “once-in-a-generation investment” to modernize U.S. infrastructure by rapidly deploying sustainable renewable power generation technology. As the primary U.S. federal law to address climate change before the world exceeds a ‘tipping point’ of uncontrolled warming, this Infrastructure law must not be impaired or frustrated by any other government actions. However, inferior levels of local government now are interceding, placing their legal ‘thumbs’ on and legally blocking implementation of Biden Administration sustainable Infrastructure. This article analyzes the legal conflicts posed by hundreds of state and local governments …

Deregulasi Terhadap Paradoks Vaksin Covid-19 Sebagai Barang Publik Dan Vaksin Berbayar Dalam Peraturan Menteri Kesehatan Nomor 19 Tahun 2021, Fikri Ahsan

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

The Coronavirus Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccine coronavirus (COVID-19) on pandemics is public goods that make public use of all societies in general, but in the regulation of the minister of health number 19 of 2021 regarding the second amendment to the regulation of the minister of health number 10 of 2021 regarding the implementation of vaccinations in the wake of the corona virus virus 2019 (COVID-19) vaccine, Explains the cooperative vaccination that funding is imposed on individuals/individuals (paid). This goes against public goods and tends to become commercial private goods, so in this pandemic of covid-19 should not be …

Ultimum Remedium Terhadap Keterlibatan Notaris Dalam Perbuatan Melawan Hukum, Halwa Fairuzia, Rouli Anita Velentina

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

Ultimum Remedium is a principle that means criminal sanctions should be the last resort in solving a problem, where civil and administrative sanctions are prioritised. In this journal, the researcher will discuss how this principle relates to the authority held by the Notary Honorary Council in limiting actions against the law committed by notaries. This study uses normative juridical research, where the law serves as a foundation for examining legal regulations related to legal issues regarding unlawful acts committed by notaries.

Dewan Pertimbangan Presiden Dalam Struktur Ketatanegaraan Indonesia, Brilliant Bintang Prasetya, Ryan Muthiara Wasti

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

The existence of the Presidential Advisory Council is inseparable from the history of state administration with the political phenomenon of law. Various ideas of pros and cons questioned the position and authority of the country's advisory institutions. The institution which at the beginning of its formation was named the Supreme Advisory Council then turned into a Presidential Advisory Council under the executive rule after the amendment to the 1945 Constitution. The shift raises the peculiarities of the position of advisors not under the authority given by advice. Reflecting on the discourse, this paper reviews how the position and extent of …

Database Floklore Dalam Undang-Undang Tentang Hak Cipta Dan Undang-Undang Tentang Pemajuan Kebudayaan, Lora Sinta Sulistiorini

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

Law 28/2014 on Copyright and Law 5/2017 on Cultural Promotion have a major role in regulating and protecting floklore. This can be seen from the norms that regulate the mechanism for protecting floklore in Article 38 paragraph (2) of the Copyright Law, which states that the state is obliged to make an inventory, maintain, and maintain traditional cultural expressions.law a quo also regulates the procedures for recording as contained in Articles 66-72. Not only that, the Law for the Advancement of Culture also regulates the floklore database through Articles 16-26 of a quo. The two laws then raise the question, …

Mekanisme Hukum Adat Perdmaian (Mela Sare) Dalam Mewujudkan Rekonsiliasi Para Pihak Pasca Putusan Pengadilan Pada Masyarakat Lamaholot Di Adonara – Flores Timur, Handrianus David Ola Sili

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

The substance aspect that underlies this writing in the Adonara community, the implication of a court decision is the breakdown of relations / relations both personal and social between the parties to the dispute or "kenetun". In order for the implication of the court decision to help eliminate the "kenetun" customary bulkhead, an effort was made to reconcile the parties to the dispute. Interesting to study more deeply, the Lamaholot community has a customary law tradition that is packaged in the traditional ritual of peace mela sare. This research is sociological law (sociological legal research) or empirical legal research with …

Model Pencantuman Asas Hukum Dalam Pembentukan Hukum Perikatan Nasional, Djumikasih Djumikasih

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

Indonesia is currently trying to draft a law of engagement. In the drafting process, there are differences of opinion as to whether the principles of binding law will be written explicitly or implicitly. Based on the results of the discussion, it can be concluded that, the nature of legal principles is a very important and fundamental thing, which comes from ethical values that exist in society, which is very useful because it is a direction guide, for the formation of legal norms and law enforcement itself. The function of legal principles is not only as a foundation, heart or bridge …

Pembaruan Pemahaman Bahasa Hukum Indonesia Dalam Penafsiran Konstitusi Untuk Jaminan Kepastian Hukum, Normand Edwin Elnizar

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

This article attempts to explain legal language aspects need to be improved in implementing laws that uphold justice while at the same time provide legal certainty. The study is limited to the constitution as the highest law in the national legal system. The explanation of the linguistic aspect including foreign legal terminology in the constitutional interpretation and the constitutional interpretation as a discourse analysis. It was conducted by literature research to compare the paradigm of constitutional interpretation theory with linguistic aspects in linguistic theory. Decision Number 84/PUU-XVI/2018 used as example for this research. This qualitative research describes some linguistic aspects …

Redistribusi Tanah Bekas Hak Erfpacht Dalam Kaitannya Dengan Pilot Project Of Agrarian Reform Guna Mewujudkan Sustainable Development Di Desa Galengdowo, Kabupaten Jombang, Fadila Fernanda, Adhitya Widya Kartika

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

The redistribution of land with erfpacht right in Galengdowo village is one of the agrarian reform programs in the form of distributing state land to cultivators by giving ownership right to the land they cultivate. These freehold land certificates can then be used as collateral to obtain business capital through Community Land Empowerment (CLE) which is aimed at becoming a pilot project for an agrarian reforma village producing coffee and dairy products by developing regional-level businesses to become national scale. This study uses an empirical legal research method that examines the implementation of law in society. The approach used is …

Menelisik Sikap Pemerintah Indonesia Dalam Menghadapi Kelangkaan Alat Pelindung Diri Ditengah Wabah Pandemi Coronavirus Disease (Ditinjau Dari Undang-Undang Nomor 36 Tahun 2009 Tentang Kesehatan), Marisca Gondokesumo, Nabbilah Amir

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

World Health Organization (WHO) has established coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) as Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC), WHO recommends all countries to anticipate COVID-19. One important element needed to deal with the virus is personal protective equipment that is used by medical personnel to carry out medical treatment for patients infected with COVID-19, but the item is scarcity in Indonesia. What is the attitude of the Indonesian government in responding to the scarcity of personal protective equipment. The research method used is empirical juridical. The results showed that the scarcity of the availability of personal protective equipment due to …