Too Big To Fail: Limiting Public Risk In Hydropower Licensing,
2018
UC Law SF
Too Big To Fail: Limiting Public Risk In Hydropower Licensing, Joshua Viers, Daniel Nover
UC Law Environmental Journal
No abstract provided.
The Breathers Of Bayview Hill: Redevelopment And Environmental Justice In Southeast San Francisco,
2018
UC Law SF
The Breathers Of Bayview Hill: Redevelopment And Environmental Justice In Southeast San Francisco, Lindsey Dillon
UC Law Environmental Journal
No abstract provided.
The True Cost Of “Cheap” Seafood: An Analysis Of Environmental And Human Exploitation In The
Seafood Industry,
2018
UC Law SF
The True Cost Of “Cheap” Seafood: An Analysis Of Environmental And Human Exploitation In The Seafood Industry, Tiffany T. V. Duong
UC Law Environmental Journal
No abstract provided.
Environmental Justice Act Of 2017: A Fighting Chance For Frontline Communities,
2018
UC Law SF
Environmental Justice Act Of 2017: A Fighting Chance For Frontline Communities, Jeremy Orr
UC Law Environmental Journal
No abstract provided.
Safeguarding Development: Risk Reduction In U.S. Government Foreign Aid And Investment
Facilitation Beyond The Current Patchwork,
2018
UC Law SF
Safeguarding Development: Risk Reduction In U.S. Government Foreign Aid And Investment Facilitation Beyond The Current Patchwork, Naomi Roht-Arriaza
UC Law Environmental Journal
No abstract provided.
An Introduction To The Student Pieces,
2018
UC Law SF
An Introduction To The Student Pieces, Hadar Aviram, David Takacs
UC Law Environmental Journal
No abstract provided.
Accountability For Pesticide Poisoning Of Undocumented Farmworkers,
2018
UC Law SF
Accountability For Pesticide Poisoning Of Undocumented Farmworkers, Elizabeth Lincoln
UC Law Environmental Journal
No abstract provided.
Crafting A Standard: Environmental Crimes As Crimes Against Humanity Under The International
Criminal Court,
2018
UC Law SF
Crafting A Standard: Environmental Crimes As Crimes Against Humanity Under The International Criminal Court, Jessica Durney
UC Law Environmental Journal
No abstract provided.
Harvey, Irma, And The Nfip: Did The 2017 Hurricane Season Matter To Flood Insurance Reauthorization?,
2018
S.J. Quinney College of Law, University of Utah
Harvey, Irma, And The Nfip: Did The 2017 Hurricane Season Matter To Flood Insurance Reauthorization?, Robin Kundis Craig
Utah Law Faculty Scholarship
The National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) has become a coastal hurricane insurance program—a fact that is bankrupting it. As a result of climate change, the ocean surrounding the United States is both rising and becoming warmer, and hurricanes and other coastal storms are projected to become both more frequent and more destructive. While no particular hurricane can yet be blamed exclusively on climate change, these projections nevertheless have real implications for the future of the NFIP.
In 2017, Congress was gearing up to reauthorize the NFIP just as the United States entered its worst hurricane season in over a decade. …
A Response To Dismantling Monuments,
2018
S.J. Quinney College of Law, University of Utah
A Response To Dismantling Monuments, John C. Ruple
Utah Law Faculty Scholarship
This article refutes the main arguments made in Dismantling Monuments, which recently appeared in the Florida Law Review. It shows that national monument designations have been used to protect large landscapes for more than a century, and that no legal challenge to a monument’s size has ever succeeded. It then explains why the weight of evidence suggests that Congress, in passing the Antiquities Act, intended to endow the President with the power to designate national monuments; but that Congress did not intend to vest the President with the power to dramatically reduce them. It also dispels notions that in reducing …
Peddling Ignorance: A New Falsity Standard For Scientific Knowledge Fraud Cases,
2018
Barry University
Peddling Ignorance: A New Falsity Standard For Scientific Knowledge Fraud Cases, Wes Henricksen
Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Food, Fracking, And Folly,
2018
University of Oklahoma College of Law
Food, Fracking, And Folly, Melissa Mortazavi
Faculty Articles
Few industries in the United States carry the clout and capital of the oil and gas and agricultural sectors. Economic behemoths, their booms and busts shape the destinies of states, define national policy, and secure the life or death of small towns across the United States. Like it or not, the agriculture and oil and gas industries have strong lobbies and vehement and mobilized constituencies. Recent years have seen both sectors facing public push-back on modern trends in extraction, growth, and methods of production. In response to these developments, these industries have used their considerable political capital to seek new …
Using Drones To Fight Slavery In The Fields: An Examination Of The Practicality And Constitutionalityof Applying 21st Century Technology To A 21st Century Problem, Claire Wilkens
UC Law Environmental Journal
No abstract provided.
Compacts Of Free Association-Type Agreements: A Life Preserver For Small Island Sovereignty In An
Era Of Climate Change?,
2018
UC Law SF
Compacts Of Free Association-Type Agreements: A Life Preserver For Small Island Sovereignty In An Era Of Climate Change?, Philip G. Dabbagh
UC Law Environmental Journal
No abstract provided.
Using Eias In Our Research,
2018
Columbia University, Columbia Water Center
Using Eias In Our Research, Madison E. Condon
Sabin Center for Climate Change Law
A description of how researchers at the Columbia Water Center use environmental impact assessments in their research projects.
Human Rights And Article 6 Of The Paris Agreement: Ensuring Adequate Protection Of Human Rights In The Sdm And Itmo Frameworks,
2018
Columbia University, Sabin Center for Climate Change Law
Human Rights And Article 6 Of The Paris Agreement: Ensuring Adequate Protection Of Human Rights In The Sdm And Itmo Frameworks, Romany M. Webb, Jessica A. Wentz
Sabin Center for Climate Change Law
Article 6 of the Paris Agreement recognizes the right of Parties to cooperate in the implementation of their nationally determined contributions (NDCs) through both market- and non-market-based approaches. One market-based approach is outlined in Article 6.2 which provides for “the use of internationally transferred mitigation outcomes [(ITMOs)] towards” NDCs. This is widely seen as establishing a “bottom-up” approach, whereby “mitigation outcomes,” representing emission reduction credits, can be transferred internationally and then become ITMOs. It can be contrasted with other market-based approaches that are “top-down,” involving centralized programs supporting emission reduction projects. One such program is created in Article 6.4 of …
Prison Preparedness And Legal Obligations To Protect Prisoners During Natural Disasters,
2018
Columbia Law School
Prison Preparedness And Legal Obligations To Protect Prisoners During Natural Disasters, William Omorogieva
Sabin Center for Climate Change Law
Since at least 2004, the intensity of hurricanes and the damage they have caused in America has increased significantly. After the turbulent hurricane season of 2017, citizens should recognize the elevated risks to safety that occur when individuals stay put, especially during high-intensity hurricanes (Category 3 and higher). States of emergency and evacuation orders have been declared recently in many states and cities that anticipated extreme hurricane conditions. However, even with increased calls for evacuations, warnings from public officials, and around the clock media coverage, a significant portion of the population has continued to be overlooked during times of natural …
Expertise Scientifique Et Lien De Causalité Dans Le Cadre Du Contentieux Climatique: Le Point De Vue De La Doctrine Américaine,
2018
Columbia Law School, Sabin Center for Climate Change Law
Expertise Scientifique Et Lien De Causalité Dans Le Cadre Du Contentieux Climatique: Le Point De Vue De La Doctrine Américaine, Michael Burger
Sabin Center for Climate Change Law
Au cours des dernières années, il y a eu une augmentation remarquable du nombre d’actions judiciaires visant à demander aux Gouvernements et aux acteurs privés de rendre des comptes de leur inaction face aux changements climatiques. La « science de l’attribution » du changement climatique – c’est-à-dire la capacité de détecter les changements environnementaux et de les attribuer à l’augmentation des émissions de gaz à effet de serre – joue un rôle central dans bon nombre de ces actions : elle permet en effet de fonder à la fois l’attribution d’événements extrêmes au changement climatique et d’émissions de gaz à …
Microgrids And Resilience To Climate-Driven Impacts On Public Health,
2018
Columbia Law School, Sabin Center for Climate Change Law
Microgrids And Resilience To Climate-Driven Impacts On Public Health, Justin Gundlach
Sabin Center for Climate Change Law
“Resilience” has burst into the lexicons of several policy areas in recent years, owing in no small part to climate change’s amplification of extreme events that severely disrupt the operation of natural, social, and engineered systems. Fostering resilience means anticipating severe disruptions and planning, investing, and designing so that such disruptions, which are certain to occur, are made shallower in depth and shorter in duration. Thus a resilient system or community can continue functioning despite disruptive events, return more swiftly to routine function following disruption, and incorporate new information so as to improve operations in extremis and speed future restorations. …
Climate Change Impacts On The Bulk Power System: Assessing Vulnerabilities And Planning For Resilience,
2018
Columbia Law School, Sabin Center for Climate Change Law
Climate Change Impacts On The Bulk Power System: Assessing Vulnerabilities And Planning For Resilience, Justin Gundlach, Romany M. Webb
Sabin Center for Climate Change Law
As the scale, speed, and implications of climate change come into focus, stakeholders in the electricity sector are finding it increasingly difficult to turn a blind eye. However, many have opted to attend to climate impacts in a piecemeal fashion, often merely responding to particular extreme events – or types of extreme events, such as coastal storms or floods – and failing to consider the larger phenomenon. This is true of the bulk power system (BPS) in regions overseen by Independent System Operators and Regional Transmission Organizations (collectively, ISO/RTOs), none of which have comprehensively assessed their systems’ vulnerabilities to climate …
