Category: Volume 33
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Federal vs. State Jurisdiction Over Net Metering Rates
Introduction Net energy metering (“NEM”) is an important tool used by states to promote residential solar energy and accelerate the transition to a low-carbon economy. In simple terms, NEM is […]
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Community Choice Aggregators, Biomass Energy, and California’s Just Transition: A Case Study of AB 843 and Responsible Biomass Procurement Principles
Introduction On September 23, 2021, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed twenty-four historic bills focused on climate and clean energy efforts, drought, and wildfire preparedness.[3] Included within that slate of bills […]
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The (Un)just Use of Transition Minerals: How Efforts to Achieve a Low-Carbon Economy Continue to Violate Indigenous Rights
Introduction For the last two decades, policy makers from around the globe have foreseen the need to derive and implement solutions to mitigate the effects of climate change. And the […]
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Securitization of Coal Plant Retirements: Implications for Just Energy Transitions
Abstract Climate change and its destabilizing effects are already here. Yet there is a chance to prevent even worse scenarios if carbon emissions can be quickly and drastically reduced, especially […]
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The Rise of Critical Infrastructure Protest Legislation and Its Implications for Radical Climate Activism
Introduction The global crisis of climate change looms large over every aspect of our society today. It presents an increasingly potent existential danger to humanity, as the widespread consequences of […]
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The Clean Energy Dilemma: How the Push for Clean Energy Could Threaten Indigenous Communities and an Exploration of Potential Alternatives
Introduction The Biden Administration’s efforts to combat climate change by moving toward clean energy are poised to have an outsized impact on Indigenous communities if critical minerals slated for clean […]
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Where the NHPA and NEPA Meet: Failures of the Nexus of EIS and Section 106 Analyses
Introduction Picture Alaska’s largest caribou herd, wild salmon, eleven major rivers, and Alaskan Native communities’ spiritual, cultural, and historic lands.[2] Now picture a 211 mile-long road cutting through that ecologically […]
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COVID-19 Infects the Fishing Industry: The Rise of Illegal Fishing and the Waiver of Fishery Observer Requirements
INTRODUCTION In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic upended the world as we knew it. COVID-19 impacted almost every aspect of society and the planet—even ocean ecosystems. As global economies sunk into […]
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Impact Fees, Bonding Reform, and Oil and Gas Development
Local and state governments use impact fees to pay for the costs of development. Impact fees improve economic efficiency by internalizing external costs such as the loss of open […]
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Why Colorado Should Evaluate Clean Water Act Section 404 Program Assumption
I. INTRODUCTION “The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.” – Charles Kettering[2] For over four decades, Colorado, like virtually every other state, […]