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Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal

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Contractual Interpretations, Ambiguities, And Litigation Difficulties Presented In The Context Of Oil And Gas Leases As A Result Of The Texas Supreme Court’S Decision In Murphy Exploration & Prod. Co.-Usa V. Adams, 560 S.W.3d 105 (Tex. 2018), Jake B. Ware

Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal

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Can You Dig It? A Note On The U.S. Supreme Court’S Atomic Energy Act Preemption Decision In Virginia Uranium, Inc. V. Warren, John Shelden

Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal

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Balkanization In Oil And Gas: How Home Rule Constitutional Provisions Disrupt State Law, Dan Ray

Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal

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Identifying The Pillars Of A Pro-Solar Energy Policy: A Multi-State Survey Of Distributed Solar Energy Generation Laws, Samuel Moore

Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal

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Budding Marijuana Industry Meets Climate & Environmental Crisis: A Call To Legislative Action, Spencer Gill

Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal

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Parker Drilling Mgmt. Servs., Ltd. V. Newton: Drilling Down On The Law Of The Outer Continental Shelf, William Dakil

Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal

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The Battle For Oil: Fighting Through Corruption & Changing Socio-Economic Landscapes To Win Over Africa’S Biggest Giants, Modupe Adamolekun

Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal

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Editor's Introduction & Front Pages

Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal

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Law School News: Dennis W. Nixon: Doctor Of Laws, Honoris Causa 05-09-2020, Roger Williams University School Of Law

Life of the Law School (1993- )

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When Water Isn't Wet: The Evolution Of Water Right Mitigation In Washington State, Rachael Osborn, Michael Mayer

Seattle Journal of Technology, Environmental, & Innovation Law

What is water right mitigation?

The allocation of surface and ground water resources for out of stream uses via the western water rights doctrine of prior appropriation comes with serious environmental consequences – depletion of streamflow and aquifers. Over-appropriation by water rights has led to deleterious impacts on natural resources, including salmon survival, water quality, and public uses of state waterways.

Because of the over-appropriated condition of Washington’s rivers and aquifers, the issuance of new water rights has until recently required water-for-water or in-kind mitigation, with the goal to directly compensate for deleterious impacts. Historically, the Water Resources Program of …

Shifting Public Perception: Climate Change Means Living With Fire And Smoke, Robert Froembling

Seattle Journal of Technology, Environmental, & Innovation Law

The urgency to prepare for the climate crisis has never been greater. We are currently living in the sixth mass extinction and the effects are only going to accelerate. We will inherit more wildfires, larger wildfires, and more frequent wildfires.

This piece is not meant to stoke fear in its readers or be depressing, but to shift public perception on what our future holds by evaluating the laws and science presented to us. This piece will look at regional and federal regulations and assess the increased rate of forest fires and the grave public health concerns from stagnant smoke specifically …

Part 3: Case Study Appendices To The Technical Reports, Seth J. Boettcher, Courtney Gately, Alexandra L. Lizano, Alexis Long, Alexis Yelvington

EENRS Program Reports & Publications

This Case Study Appendix to the Technical Reports expands on regulations in San Antonio and El Paso where these water alternatives are in place. The goal of this report is to provide insight into the legal and regulatory barriers, challenges, and opportunities for these technologies to go online. Each desalination and water recycling faciality implementation site must comply with various laws and regulations. The information in these Case Studies comes from the study of brackish groundwater desalination and water recycling facilities currently operating in Texas. While there is no updated “one-stop-shop” resource where a municipal leader can find a list …

Part 2: Water Recycling Technical Report For Direct Non-Potable Use, Seth J. Boettcher, Courtney Gately, Alexandra L. Lizano, Alexis Long, Alexis Yelvington

EENRS Program Reports & Publications

This Water Recycling Technical Report examines the legal frameworks that affect water recycling in Texas. The goal of this report is to provide insight into the legal and regulatory barriers, challenges, and opportunities for these technologies to go online. Each water recycling implementation site has to find ways of complying with various laws and regulations. The information in this Report comes from the study of water recycling facilities currently operating in Texas, as well as extensive research into available literature and documents from various agencies. While there is no updated “one-stop-shop” resource that provides detailed information on all the necessary …

Part 1: Brackish Groundwater Desalination Technical Report, Seth J. Boettcher, Courtney Gately, Alexandra L. Lizano, Alexis Long, Alexis Yelvington

EENRS Program Reports & Publications

This Brackish Groundwater Desalination Technical Report examines the legal frameworks that affect desalination in Texas. The goal of this report is to provide insight into the legal and regulatory barriers, challenges, and opportunities for these technologies to go online. Each desalination implementation site has to find ways of complying with various laws and regulations. The information in this Report comes from the study of brackish groundwater desalination facilities currently operating in Texas, as well as extensive research into available literature and documents from various agencies. While there is no updated “one-stop-shop” resource that provides detailed information on all the necessary …

Environmental Justice: Law, Policy & Regulation, Clifford Villa, Nadia Ahmad, Rebecca Bratspies, Roger Lin, Clifford Rechtschaffen, Eileen Gauna, Catherine O'Neill

Faculty Book Display Case

Environmental Justice: Law, Policy, & Regulation explores theory and practice in this dynamic subject, which fuses environmental law and civil rights enforcement. From early concerns over toxic waste in minority communities, environmental justice expanded to consider the range of environmental threats facing poor, immigrant, and indigenous communities; women, children, and seniors; and other vulnerable populations. This third edition provides extensively updated materials to address environmental justice concerns today, including oil drilling in the Arctic, the Dakota Access Pipeline, drinking water contamination in Flint, and the devastation wrought by Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico. Featuring new chapters addressing disaster justice and …

Dairy Tales: Global Portraits Of Milk And Law, Jessica Eisen, Xiaoqian Hu, Erum Sattar

Journal of Food Law & Policy

Cow’s milk has enjoyed a widespread cultural signification in many parts of the world as “nature’s perfect food.”1 A growing body of scholarship, however, has challenged the image of cow’s milk in human diets and polities as a product of “nature,” and has instead sought to illuminate the political, scientific, colonial and postcolonial, economic, and social forces that have in fact defined the production, consumption, and cultural signification of cow’s milk in human societies. This emerging attention to the social, legal, and political significance of milk sits at the intersection of several fields of academic inquiry: anthropology, history, animal studies, …

Analisis Hukum Skema Kontrak Gross Split Terhadap Peningkatan Investasi Hulu Minyak Dan Gas Bumi, Muhammad Fajri

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

As a solution to the problems of the Cost Recovery production sharing contract system, the Government of Indonesia through the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources issued Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources of the Republic of Indonesia Regulation Number 08 of 2017 concerning Gross Split Production Sharing Contracts. This new regulation is motivated by the low number and length of time of the discovery of oil and gas reserves, along with the Non-Tax State Revenue (PNBP) which continues to decline in the upstream oil and gas sector. The Gross Split profit sharing scheme also offers bureaucratic cuts in investment …

On Proposal To Regulate Abuse Of Superior Bargaining Position: Lessons From Other Jurisdictions, Meirani Suyawan, Kurnia Togar Pandapotan Tanjung

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

The latest version of the draft bill regarding Law on the Prohibition of Monopolistic Practices and Unfair Business Competition has added new arrangements about the abuse of a superior bargaining position. The new law proposal which is intended to amend existing Indonesian competition law (Law Number 5 Year 1999) stipulates that any business actor is prohibited from abuse its superior bargaining position within a partnership agreement with other less dominant entities. Under Law Number 20 Year 2008 on Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, a partnership agreement means any agreement made between micro, small and medium enterprises and large enterprises like …

Pengembangan Kapasitas Usaha Kecil Menengah Dalam Memanfaatkan Sistem Hak Kekayaan Intelektual Bagi Peningkatan Daya Saing Usaha, Ranggalawe Suryasaladin

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

As a main contributor to Indonesia GDP, Small and Medium Enterprises should be assisted by Goverment and University in order to expand its capacity in managing their intangible assets and intellectual property. The efforts in giving guidance to SMEs in managing its IP and take a benefit of IP systems could be on the mapping of problems faced by SMEs in managing its IP and addressing a better policy recommendation suitable to solves it problems. This article streghtening the arguments that to enhance Indonesia SME capacities in managing its IP , the government institutions and university have to coopertate in …