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Opposition To Renewable Energy Facilities In The United States: March 2022 Edition, Hillary Aidun, Jacob Elkin, Radhika Goyal, Kate Marsh, Neely McKee, Maris Welch, Leah Adelman, Shane Finn Columbia Law School, Sabin Center for Climate Change Law

Opposition To Renewable Energy Facilities In The United States: March 2022 Edition, Hillary Aidun, Jacob Elkin, Radhika Goyal, Kate Marsh, Neely Mckee, Maris Welch, Leah Adelman, Shane Finn

Sabin Center for Climate Change Law

Achieving lower carbon emissions in the United States will require developing a very large number of wind, solar, and other renewable energy facilities, as well as associated storage, distribution, and transmission, at an unprecedented scale and pace. Although host community members are often enthusiastic about renewable energy facilities’ economic and environmental benefits, local opposition often arises. This report updates a previous Sabin Center report, published in February 2021, and documents local restrictions on and opposition to siting renewable energy projects for the period from 1995 to early 2022. Importantly, the authors do not make normative judgments as to the legal …

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Prostitution Policy: Legalization, Decriminalization And The Nordic Model, Ane Mathieson, Easton Branam, Anya Noble Seattle University School of Law

Prostitution Policy: Legalization, Decriminalization And The Nordic Model, Ane Mathieson, Easton Branam, Anya Noble

Seattle Journal for Social Justice

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Nuclear Nonsense: Why Nuclear Power Is No Answer To Climate Change And The World's Post-Kyoto Energy Challenges, Benjamin K. Sovacool, Christopher Cooper William & Mary Law School

Nuclear Nonsense: Why Nuclear Power Is No Answer To Climate Change And The World's Post-Kyoto Energy Challenges, Benjamin K. Sovacool, Christopher Cooper

William & Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review

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Biofuels: Potentials, Problems & Solutions, Richard L. Ottinger Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University

Biofuels: Potentials, Problems & Solutions, Richard L. Ottinger

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

Biofuels have the exciting potential of mitigating the grave threats of global warming, reducing the world's dependence on imported oil from insecure sources and of reducing the skyrocketing costs of oil that are threatening to undermine the world's economies and devastating the people in non-oil producing, developing countries. For the people in these countries, biofuel offer a promising road to enhance development since they use local materials, can provide local jobs, and do not require the import of expensive equipment and expertise. Brazil has been the pioneer in the use of biofuel, allowing it to eliminate its oil imports, becoming …

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When Less Is More: Minimalism And The Environment, Crisol Lopez Palafox Barry University School of Law

When Less Is More: Minimalism And The Environment, Crisol Lopez Palafox

Environmental and Earth Law Journal (EELJ)

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Comparative Analysis Between Saudi Arabia And Norway In Moving Beyond Fossil Fuels Towards A Sustainable Economy: A Special Emphasis On The Renewable Energy Sector, Saad Nasser AlQahtani Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University

Comparative Analysis Between Saudi Arabia And Norway In Moving Beyond Fossil Fuels Towards A Sustainable Economy: A Special Emphasis On The Renewable Energy Sector, Saad Nasser Alqahtani

Dissertations & Theses

Saudi Arabia is the largest economy in the Middle East and the 18th largest in the world. The country has the world's second-largest proven petroleum reserves and is the largest exporter of petroleum. In 2016, Saudi Arabia had the third highest estimated value of natural resources at $34.4 trillion (US). However, because of the 2014 oil crash, climate change, and the development of renewable energy technology, the government has decided to transition from its complete reliance on oil revenues and to start investing heavily in other non-oil sectors, such as the renewable energy sector. The Saudi government plans to generate …

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Unanswered Questions From The Vaccine Injury Compensation Program: A Review Of Compensated Cases Of Vaccine-Induced Brain Injury, Mary Holland, Louis Conte, Robert Krakow, Lisa Colin NYU School of Law

Unanswered Questions From The Vaccine Injury Compensation Program: A Review Of Compensated Cases Of Vaccine-Induced Brain Injury, Mary Holland, Louis Conte, Robert Krakow, Lisa Colin

Pace Environmental Law Review

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Breaking Joint Venture Agreement Deadlocks: Before The Texas Shoot-Out, Try A Texas Shout-Out, Norman Nadorff, Quinncy McNeal University of Oklahoma College of Law

Breaking Joint Venture Agreement Deadlocks: Before The Texas Shoot-Out, Try A Texas Shout-Out, Norman Nadorff, Quinncy Mcneal

Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal

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An Analysis Of Mandatory Hookup Law: Cases & Statutes, Jesse Richardson West Virginia University

An Analysis Of Mandatory Hookup Law: Cases & Statutes, Jesse Richardson

Law Faculty Scholarship

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Banning Plastic Straws: The Beginning Of The War Against Plastics, Marcela Romero Mosquera Barry University School of Law

Banning Plastic Straws: The Beginning Of The War Against Plastics, Marcela Romero Mosquera

Environmental and Earth Law Journal (EELJ)

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Defining Interim Storage Of Nuclear Waste, Max Johnson 2023 Northwestern Pritzker School of Law

Defining Interim Storage Of Nuclear Waste, Max Johnson

Northwestern University Law Review

Nuclear power may be humanity’s best hope to curb climate-altering greenhouse gas emissions. But public fear of its dangers, including the toxicity of nuclear waste, undermines its expansion. To provide for more effective waste disposal, in 2021 and 2022 the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) recommended licensing two privately-owned nuclear waste storage facilities—called Consolidated Interim Storage Facilities (CISFs)—to be built in New Mexico and in Texas. Both states vehemently oppose the construction and operation of these facilities: legislators in both states have proposed state laws opposing them, and both states have sued the NRC challenging the legality of the facilities’ licensure. …

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Examining The Role Of Ags In A Just Transition, Bethany Davis Noll, Terri Gerstein 2023 New York University Faculty Account

Examining The Role Of Ags In A Just Transition, Bethany Davis Noll, Terri Gerstein

Pace Environmental Law Review

Tackling the climate crisis requires transitioning from fossil fuel to clean energy, which will necessarily have a significant impact on jobs and the economy overall. The impact of this shift has sometimes been feared as a development that will be harmful to workers and the economy. Fossil fuel jobs are seen as good jobs--well-paid jobs with good benefits and protections--while the emerging clean energy industry has not yet uniformly embraced a high-road employment model. But workers’ rights and environmental concerns are not fundamentally incompatible. There are many policies and tools that can be and are being harnessed to bring about …

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Shifting Away From Coal Power: Prioritizing Ratepayers And Communities Vs. Shareholders?, Shanti Gamper-Rabindran 2023 University of Pittsburgh - Main Campus

Shifting Away From Coal Power: Prioritizing Ratepayers And Communities Vs. Shareholders?, Shanti Gamper-Rabindran

Pace Environmental Law Review

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Green Transitions In A Covid Economy, Nicholas Bryner 2023 Louisiana State University

Green Transitions In A Covid Economy, Nicholas Bryner

Pace Environmental Law Review

As many elements of a Green New Deal languished in Congress, economic policy took dramatic turns instead to address a different crisis: the Covid-19 pandemic. This Essay explores the way in which legal and policy responses to Covid-19 in the United States—particularly as discourse has focused on the impacts of Covid-19 response on labor markets—may provide insight into the political economy of a Green New Deal. New federal spending toward a just transition is structurally much easier to accomplish than developing new regulatory policy through legislation or executive action and avoids judicial policing of administrative authority.

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What Makes It A Just Transition? A Case Study Of Renewable Rikers, Rebecca Bratspies 2023 CUNY Law School

What Makes It A Just Transition? A Case Study Of Renewable Rikers, Rebecca Bratspies

Pace Environmental Law Review

This essay offers New York City’s Renewable Rikers as an example of what a just transition might look like in practice. Specifically, this essay describes how Renewable Rikers connects the need for non-polluting energy infrastructure with a broader conversation about decarceration and racial justice to build an inclusive pathway for prosperity and environmental health for all New Yorkers. The first part of this essay sets the stage with a brief overview of the climate crisis. Part two sketches the contours of what constitutes a just transition as that term is used in the Green New Deal Resolution. Part three situates …

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Renewable Portfolio Standards: Effectiveness And Carbon Implications, Alexander S. Albrecht 2023 Claremont McKenna College

Renewable Portfolio Standards: Effectiveness And Carbon Implications, Alexander S. Albrecht

CMC Senior Theses

A renewable portfolio standard (RPS) policy is a popular regulatory tool implemented within the U.S. and abroad to limit energy sector emissions and incentivize renewable energy. Assessing their effectiveness and efficiency is a key component of achieving further reductions. We assess an energy market under an RPS using fixed-effects panel and 2SLS regression models to lend empirical credence to common theory-based concerns about RPS policy, namely (1) that they leave emissions unregulated once the RPS requirement is met and (2) that they do not incentivize full use of renewable energy resources. Our results show these to be valid concerns that …

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Sovereign Lands, Brent D. Chicken, Amanda J. Dick 2022 University of Oklahoma College of Law

Sovereign Lands, Brent D. Chicken, Amanda J. Dick

Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal

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Wyoming, John R. Chadd 2022 University of Oklahoma College of Law

Wyoming, John R. Chadd

Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal

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West Virginia, Andrew S. Graham 2022 University of Oklahoma College of Law

West Virginia, Andrew S. Graham

Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal

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Virginia, Zachary H. Barrett 2022 University of Oklahoma College of Law

Virginia, Zachary H. Barrett

Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal

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Utah, Alan M. White 2022 University of Oklahoma College of Law

Utah, Alan M. White

Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal

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Texas, Melissa Munson 2022 University of Oklahoma College of Law

Texas, Melissa Munson

Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal

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Tennessee, Westley A. Ketron 2022 University of Oklahoma College of Law

Tennessee, Westley A. Ketron

Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal

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Pennsylvania, Nathaniel I. Holland, Jon C. Beckman, Benedict J. Kirchner 2022 University of Oklahoma College of Law

Pennsylvania, Nathaniel I. Holland, Jon C. Beckman, Benedict J. Kirchner

Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal

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Oklahoma, Matt Schlensker, Sandra Fraley 2022 University of Oklahoma College of Law

Oklahoma, Matt Schlensker, Sandra Fraley

Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal

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Ohio, Tim McKeen, Melissa Grimes 2022 University of Oklahoma College of Law

Ohio, Tim Mckeen, Melissa Grimes

Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal

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North Dakota, William J. Black 2022 University of Oklahoma College of Law

North Dakota, William J. Black

Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal

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New York, Delainey Banks 2022 University of Oklahoma College of Law

New York, Delainey Banks

Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal

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New Mexico, Blake C. Jones 2022 University of Oklahoma College of Law

New Mexico, Blake C. Jones

Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal

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Nevada, Kevin Hivick 2022 University of Oklahoma College of Law

Nevada, Kevin Hivick

Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal

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Hillary Aidun Columbia Law School, Sabin Center for Climate Change Law

Richard Ottinger Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University

Jesse Richardson West Virginia University College of Law

Cary Coglianese University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School

Joseph Tomain University of Cincinnati College of Law

Mary Holland NYU School of Law

Rebecca Jenkins Lewis & Clark Law School

Kathy Hessler Lewis & Clark Law School

Hari Osofsky University of Minnesota Law School

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