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The Missouri River: Law, Politics, And Creatures Caught In The Conflicts, Brook A. Spear 2010 University at Buffalo School of Law

The Missouri River: Law, Politics, And Creatures Caught In The Conflicts, Brook A. Spear

Buffalo Environmental Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Leviathan Menacing The Gulf Coast: Catastrophic Consequences May Imperil The Rule Of Law, Beau James Brock 2010 Manasseh, Gill, Knipe & Belanger

Leviathan Menacing The Gulf Coast: Catastrophic Consequences May Imperil The Rule Of Law, Beau James Brock

Buffalo Environmental Law Journal

No abstract provided.


The Vulnerability Of Subsea Infrastructure To Underwater Attack: Legal Shortcomings And The Way Forward, Laurence Reza Wrathall 2010 University of San Diego

The Vulnerability Of Subsea Infrastructure To Underwater Attack: Legal Shortcomings And The Way Forward, Laurence Reza Wrathall

San Diego International Law Journal

This Article explores the vulnerability of submarine pipelines and cables to underwater subterfuge beyond territorial waters, particularly with regards to the emerging threat posed by unmanned vehicles in executing such mal intent. Next, it describes the legal status of this critical infrastructure before identifying shortcomings in legal protection from underwater attack. Finally, potential solutions are offered for the way forward.


Evolving Regulation In The New Energy Boom States, Hannah J. Wiseman 2010 Florida State University College of Law

Evolving Regulation In The New Energy Boom States, Hannah J. Wiseman

Scholarly Publications

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Nepa In The Hot Seat: A Proposal For An Office Of Environmental Analysis, Aliza M. Cohen 2010 University of Michigan Law School

Nepa In The Hot Seat: A Proposal For An Office Of Environmental Analysis, Aliza M. Cohen

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

Judicial deference under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) can be problematic. It is a well-established rule of administrative law that courts will grant a high degree of deference to agency decisions. They do this out of respect for agency expertise and policy judgment. This deference is applied to NEPA lawsuits without acknowledging the special pressures that agencies face while assessing the environmental impacts of their own projects. Though there is a strong argument that these pressures undermine the reasons for deferential review, neither the statute nor the courts have provided plaintiffs with adequate means to remedy this problem. Agency …


Abuse Of The Warranted But Precluded Designation: A Real Or Imagined Purgatory, K. Mollie Smith 2010 University of South Carolina

Abuse Of The Warranted But Precluded Designation: A Real Or Imagined Purgatory, K. Mollie Smith

Southeastern Environmental Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Smart Growth: The Toolbox For Addressing Sprawling Development In Coastal South Carolina, Stephanie Ramia 2010 University of South Carolina

Smart Growth: The Toolbox For Addressing Sprawling Development In Coastal South Carolina, Stephanie Ramia

Southeastern Environmental Law Journal

No abstract provided.


The European Union And International Maritime Organization: Eu’S External Influence On The Prevention Of Vessel-Source Pollution, Nengye LIU, Frank MAES 2010 Singapore Management University

The European Union And International Maritime Organization: Eu’S External Influence On The Prevention Of Vessel-Source Pollution, Nengye Liu, Frank Maes

Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

The European Union (EU), with its 27 Member States, has a coastline 70, 000 km along two oceans and four seas. Its well-being is therefore inextricably linked with the sea.' Europe plays a major role in today's shipping world, 41% of the world's total fieet (in dwt) is beneficially controlled by European companies.^ Ensuring that the use of the marine environment is genuinely sustainable is a prerequisite for the EU's sea-related industries to be competitive.


Ecology Comes Of Age: Nepa’S Lost Mandate, Sam Kalen 2010 Duke Law

Ecology Comes Of Age: Nepa’S Lost Mandate, Sam Kalen

Duke Environmental Law & Policy Forum

No abstract provided.


Brazil's Launch Of Lender Environmental Liability As A Tool To Manage Environmental Impacts, Bianca Zambão 2010 University of Miami Law School

Brazil's Launch Of Lender Environmental Liability As A Tool To Manage Environmental Impacts, Bianca Zambão

University of Miami International and Comparative Law Review

Due to an emerging Brazilian doctrine of environmental liability, lenders now face the prospect of lawsuits that seek remediation of, or compensation for, environmental damages resulting from their borrowers' activities. Unprecedented judicial decisions (based on a strict, joint and several environmental liability for lenders) broad standing, and ongoing initiatives of the government portray financial institutions as the best target to pursue environmental protection in the country. That scenario, however, may represent a detour from the imperative improving the functionality of the public administration. This article examines how legal actors are shaping Brazil's environmental law enforcement and the extent to which …


Developing An Ecological Social Justice Framework For Ocean Energy Technologies: Case Studies From The Phillipines, Jay Batongbacal 2010 Dalhousie University Schulich School of Law

Developing An Ecological Social Justice Framework For Ocean Energy Technologies: Case Studies From The Phillipines, Jay Batongbacal

PhD Dissertations

Unless subjected to skeptical and conscious scrutiny, environmentally-friendly ocean energy technologies can become Trojan machines of social inequity due to the subtle re-organizing influences of technologies on culture and the society. Environmental laws that promote or regulate ocean energy technologies can act as Trojan legal regimes in the absence of a framework for assessing and anticipating their adverse impacts on social justice. Environmental justice is inadequate for this task, so an alternative framework is proposed: ecological social justice, drawn from the Third Worlds perspective of sustainable development as equitable sharing. Though overshadowed by the prevalent notion of sustainable development as …


Supplying The Light At The End Of The Tunnel: Using State-Level Experience To Develop Federal-Level Renewable Energy Policy, Joshua J. Houser 2010 University of South Carolina

Supplying The Light At The End Of The Tunnel: Using State-Level Experience To Develop Federal-Level Renewable Energy Policy, Joshua J. Houser

Southeastern Environmental Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Bridging The Gap: Using Social Psychology To Design Market Interventions To Overcome The Energy Efficiency Gap In Residential Energy Markets, Brandon Hofmeister 2010 University of South Carolina

Bridging The Gap: Using Social Psychology To Design Market Interventions To Overcome The Energy Efficiency Gap In Residential Energy Markets, Brandon Hofmeister

Southeastern Environmental Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Table Of Contents, 2010 University of South Carolina

Table Of Contents

Southeastern Environmental Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Zoo Registrars: A Bewildering Bureaucracy, Irus Braverman 2010 Duke Law

Zoo Registrars: A Bewildering Bureaucracy, Irus Braverman

Duke Environmental Law & Policy Forum

No abstract provided.


Poisoning The Poor For Profit: The Injustice Of Exporting Electronic Waste To Developing Countries, Eric V. Hull 2010 Duke Law

Poisoning The Poor For Profit: The Injustice Of Exporting Electronic Waste To Developing Countries, Eric V. Hull

Duke Environmental Law & Policy Forum

No abstract provided.


The Fluid Nature Of Property Rights In Water, Shelley Ross Saxer 2010 Duke Law

The Fluid Nature Of Property Rights In Water, Shelley Ross Saxer

Duke Environmental Law & Policy Forum

No abstract provided.


Ecosystem Services And The Clean Water Act: Strategies For Fitting New Science Into Old Law, J.B. Ruhl 2010 Vanderbilt University Law School

Ecosystem Services And The Clean Water Act: Strategies For Fitting New Science Into Old Law, J.B. Ruhl

Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications

This Article explores the administrative reform potential that exists for integrating new knowledge about ecosystem services into Clean Water Act (CWA) regulatory programs as an example for all environmental laws. Part II of the Article reviews the relevant general rules of federal administrative law governing agency interpretation of the policy space available under statutory authority for integrating new science into decision making. Part III then explores the strategies an agency such as EPA can use under those rules to integrate the concept of ecosystem services into regulatory programs by searching for statutory provisions to support what I call "direct protection" …


Trick Or Treat: The Ethics Of Mediator Manipulation, Jim Coben, Lela P. Love 2010 Hamline University School of Law

Trick Or Treat: The Ethics Of Mediator Manipulation, Jim Coben, Lela P. Love

Articles

Much of what good mediators do can be characterized as “helpful interventions” that assist the parties towards legitimate goals such as a better understanding, a platform for developing options, and (where the parties choose) an agreement or settlement. However, all such “helpful interventions” are inevitably "manipulative," in the sense that the mediator is, often unilaterally, making “moves” with profound impact on the parties’ bargaining. To evaluate the ethics of any individual move, the authors propose asking two questions: 1) does the move further or help a legitimate party or process goal that advances party self-determination in decision-making; and 2) is …


Gas Flaring In Nigeria‘S Niger Delta: Failed Promises And Reviving Community Voices, Eferiekose Ukala 2010 Washington and Lee University School of Law

Gas Flaring In Nigeria‘S Niger Delta: Failed Promises And Reviving Community Voices, Eferiekose Ukala

Washington and Lee Journal of Energy, Climate, and the Environment

This Note examines the use of litigation to stop gas flaring in Nigeria’s Niger Delta, and proposes an alternative solution to the ongoing gas flaring in the Niger Delta region. In exploring an alternative solution, this Note (1) details the history of gas flaring in Nigeria; (2) discusses Nigeria’s gas-flaring legislation and its implementation; (3) analyzes the impact that landmark gas flaring cases have had on the stoppage of gas flaring; and (4) details how litigation has been used as a tool to combat gas flaring, juxtaposing the concept of the rule of law. This Note concludes by suggesting that …


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