Streamlining The Production Of Clean Energy: Proposals To Reform The Hydroelectricity Licensing Process,
2018
University of Montana
Streamlining The Production Of Clean Energy: Proposals To Reform The Hydroelectricity Licensing Process, Travis Kavulla, Laura Farkas
Public Land & Resources Law Review
Hydroelectric power is an efficient and clean source of power. In an era when air emissions dominate public concern about the environmental effects of the energy sector, it is a paradox that among the most highly regulated energy projects are hydroelectric dams, which do not combust fuel. This is partly due to a failure of successive statutory enactments,which have transformed hydroelectric licensing from a regulatory “one-stop shop” with a single regulator, to a process chained to a bewilderingnumber of often conflicting regulatory agencies, often riven with delay. Hydroelectric licensing has also failed because its capacious standard of review encourages special-interest …
Keeping Power In Charge: Federal Hydropower And The Downstream Environment,
2018
University of New Mexico School of Law
Keeping Power In Charge: Federal Hydropower And The Downstream Environment, Reed D. Benson
Public Land & Resources Law Review
No abstract provided.
Language Matters: Environmental Controversy And The Quest For Common Ground,
2018
University of Montana
Language Matters: Environmental Controversy And The Quest For Common Ground, Scott Slovic
Public Land & Resources Law Review
No abstract provided.
Center For Biological Diversity V. Zinke,
2018
Alexander Blewett III School of Law at the University of Montana
Center For Biological Diversity V. Zinke, Ryan Hickey
Public Land & Resources Law Review
The oft-cited “arbitrary and capricious” standard revived the Center for Biological Diversity’s most recent legal challenge in its decades-long quest to see arctic grayling listed under the Endangered Species Act. While this Ninth Circuit decision did not grant grayling ESA protections, it did require the United States Fish and Wildlife Service to reconsider its 2014 finding that listing grayling as threatened or endangered was unwarranted. In doing so, the court found “range,” as used in the ESA, vague while endorsing the FWS’s 2014 clarification of that term. Finally, this holding identified specific shortcomings of the challenged FWS finding, highlighting how …
Friends Of Animals V. United States Fish & Wildlife Service,
2018
Alexander Blewett III School of Law at the University of Montana
Friends Of Animals V. United States Fish & Wildlife Service, Bradley E. Tinker
Public Land & Resources Law Review
In Friends of Animals v. United States Fish & Wildlife Service, the Ninth Circuit held that the plain language of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act allows for the removal of one species of bird to benefit another species. Friends of Animals argued that the Service’s experiment permitting the taking of one species––the barred owl––to advance the conservation of a different species––the northern spotted owl––violated the Migratory Bird Treaty Act. The court, however, found that the Act delegates broad implementing discretion to the Secretary of the Interior, and neither the Act nor the underlying international conventions limit the taking of …
Recent Case Decisions,
2018
University of Oklahoma College of Law
Recent Case Decisions
Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal
No abstract provided.
Sovereign Lands,
2018
University of Oklahoma College of Law
Sovereign Lands, Melissa Dixon
Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal
No abstract provided.
Wyoming,
2018
University of Oklahoma College of Law
Wyoming, John R. Chadd
Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal
No abstract provided.
West Virginia,
2018
University of Oklahoma College of Law
West Virginia, Andrew Graham
Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal
No abstract provided.
Virginia,
2018
University of Oklahoma College of Law
Virginia, Zachary H. Barrett, Sierra Williams
Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal
No abstract provided.
Utah,
2018
University of Oklahoma College of Law
Utah, Jim Tartaglia
Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal
No abstract provided.
Texas,
2018
University of Oklahoma College of Law
Texas, Don Hueske, Ashley Howie Tallichet
Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal
No abstract provided.
Tennessee,
2018
University of Oklahoma College of Law
Tennessee, Westley A. Ketron
Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal
No abstract provided.
Pennsylvania,
2018
University of Oklahoma College of Law
Pennsylvania, Nathaniel I. Holland, Jon C. Beckman, Benedict J. Kirchner
Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal
No abstract provided.
Oklahoma,
2018
University of Oklahoma College of Law
Oklahoma, Matt Schlensker, Justin Fisher
Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal
No abstract provided.
Ohio,
2018
University of Oklahoma College of Law
Ohio, Timothy M. Mckeen, Melissa S. Grimes
Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal
No abstract provided.
North Dakota,
2018
University of Oklahoma College of Law
North Dakota, William J. Black
Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal
No abstract provided.
New York,
2018
University of Oklahoma College of Law
New York, Nathaniel I. Holland
Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal
No abstract provided.
Nevada,
2018
University of Oklahoma College of Law
Nevada, Kacie M. Bevers
Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal
No abstract provided.
Nebraska,
2018
University of Oklahoma College of Law
Nebraska, Ashley Howie Tallichet
Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal
No abstract provided.
