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Regulatory Agency Capture: How The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Approved The Mountain Valley Pipeline, Aakshi Agarwal

Harvey M. Applebaum ’59 Award

The FERC’s history of approving nearly 100% of pipelines and divisive pipeline cases like the Atlantic Coast Pipeline and Mountain Valley Pipeline have driven landowners’ long-standing claims of regulatory agency capture of the FERC. The present research substantiates the claim of capture with a case study of the Mountain Valley Pipeline and uncovers that the FERC is both culturally and corrosively captured. This research also suggests that the capture of the FERC began at its conception during the natural gas crisis and subsequent natural gas bubble, which caused the FERC to follow the industry’s lead. These findings indicate that the …

A Transdisciplinary Analysis Of Just Transition Pathways To 100% Renewable Electricity, Adewale Aremu Adesanya

Dissertations, Master's Theses and Master's Reports

The transition to using clean, affordable, and reliable electrical energy is critical for enhancing human opportunities and capabilities. In the United States, many states and localities are engaging in this transition despite the lack of ambitious federal policy support. This research builds on the theoretical framework of the multilevel perspective (MLP) of sociotechnical transitions as well as the concept of energy justice to investigate potential pathways to 100 percent renewable energy (RE) for electricity provision in the U.S. This research seeks to answer the question: what are the technical, policy, and perceptual pathways, barriers, and opportunities for just transition to …

Evaluating Household Food, Energy, And Water Environmentally Oriented Anti-Consumption In The Us: Toward A Comprehensive Theory Synthesis, Jacob Slattery

Dissertations, Master's Theses and Master's Reports

Introduction – Everyday household activities using food, energy, and water (FEW) resources consumed in the US have perpetually contributed a large amount of carbon emissions into the atmosphere, amplifying the effects of climate change globally. These actions are embedded and routinized effectively at the individual level, resulting in habits inert to changes in household FEW behaviors more friendly to socio-environmental impacts. Public and voluntary policies could help shift perceptions of FEW household conservation, but a gap in environmental political and psychological research reveals a deficit in evidence examining the antecedents of the moral or personal norm concept.

Objective – The …

Effects Of States’ Laws On Youth Physical Activity Participation And Obesity Prevalence, Chae Young Chang

Midwest Social Sciences Journal

The alarming prevalence of obesity and lack of physical activity among adolescents led to immediate policy action to address these concerns. Accordingly, many states introduced and enacted their own legislation to encourage physical activity in schools. Few studies have explored the effectiveness of the new legislation, however, especially at the state level. To answer the fundamental question of whether policy is effective and to describe the varying effects of state obesity policies, this study analyzed the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System from 2007 to 2017. Using the difference-in-differences method, this study found that legislative efforts to encourage physical activity had …

Learning To Read Forest Landscapes, Rosalio Gonzalez

Humboldt Geographic

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Health Of Eastern Humboldt Youth, Isadora F. Sharon

Humboldt Geographic

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My Time Working The 2020 Us Census, Erendira Hernandez

Humboldt Geographic

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Contact Tracing Covid-19, Christopher Jones

Humboldt Geographic

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Alumni Updates

Humboldt Geographic

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California's Former Sundown Towns Face Up To Racist Legacies, Michael Christmas

Humboldt Geographic

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John Casali "I Wouldn't Trade My Journey For The World, Jessica Janecek, Matthew Derrick

Humboldt Geographic

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Surviving The Apple Fire, Keegan Ibanez

Humboldt Geographic

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Early Career Opportunities For Humboldt Geographers, Otto Schmitt

Humboldt Geographic

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Alumni In Focus: Kieron Slaughter, Cassandra Avila-Estrada

Humboldt Geographic

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Wildcrafting In Humboldt, Nicholas A. Perdue

Humboldt Geographic

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Gesa Shines At 75th Annual Cgs Conference

Humboldt Geographic

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Faculty Updates

Humboldt Geographic

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Transatlantic Studies In Digital Space, Ahmed Foggie

Humboldt Geographic

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Sun Tunnels Solstice, Isabella Knori

Humboldt Geographic

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Doing Geography In Partnership With Local Organizations, Amy Rock

Humboldt Geographic

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Humboldt Geographic Issue 2

Humboldt Geographic

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How The Pandemic Handed Me My Bachelor's Degree, Cheri Anchondo

Humboldt Geographic

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Queer Spaces Of Rome, Quint Migliardi

Humboldt Geographic

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Covid-19 Gave Me A Second Chance, Erendira Hernandez

Humboldt Geographic

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Our Pandemic - Adjusted Lives, Brenda Aguirre

Humboldt Geographic

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Keeping Digital Space Evil, Anthony Lucero

Humboldt Geographic

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Rhovanion, Jenna Ver Meer

Humboldt Geographic

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Aspect Aware Contours, Leo Dipierro

Humboldt Geographic

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Answers In The East: An Examination Of China's Renewable Energy And Its Application To Central Appalachia, Lillian Hamm

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

While much of China’s electrification has depended on coal, recent decades illustrate the country is heavily investing in and implementing renewable energy as a power source. Even China’s coal-rich provinces, like the northeastern province of Shanxi, have been making the transition to renewable energy. The central Appalachian states comprised of eastern Kentucky, West Virginia, western Virginia, and northeastern Tennessee share many characteristics with China’s Shanxi province including economic resources, climate, and geography. Yet, central Appalachia has not been able to easily transition to renewable energy. However, there are various cultural, political, and technological differences between the two regions to explain …

Profitable Retail Customer Identification Based On A Combined Prediction Strategy Of Customer Lifetime Value, Yinglu Sun, Dong Cheng, Subir Bandyopadhyay, Wei Xue

Midwest Social Sciences Journal

As a fundamental concept of customer relationship management, customer lifetime value (CLV) serves as a crucial metric to identify profitable retail customers. Various methods are available to predict CLV in different contexts. With the development of consumer big data, modern statistics and machine learning algorithms have been gradually adopted in CLV modeling. We introduce two machine learning algorithms—the gradient boosting decision tree (GBDT) and the random forest (RF)—in retail customer CLV modeling and compare their predictive performance with two classical models—the Pareto/NBD (HB) and the Pareto/GGG. To ensure CLV prediction and customer identification robustness, we combined the predictions of the …