Category: Printed
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Not Under My Backyard: The Battle Between Colorado and Local Governments Over Hydraulic Fracturing
In measure, however, history has repeated itself . . . . To all these places the oil derrick has come like a conquering army driving all before it. Farms, fields, orchards, gardens, dooryards, and […]
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Tribes, Treaties, and the Trust Responsibility: A Call for Co-Management of Huckleberries in the Northwest
INTRODUCTION Our ancestors biggest fear, what they feared most at treaty time, was a loss of the ability to hunt, fish, and gather foods like they’d always done. That’s […]
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The Case for the Creation of an International Environmental Court: Non-State Actors and International Environmental Dispute Resolution
ABSTRACT This Article aims to investigate how environmental governance unfolds in the globalized world and how the increasing level of participation of non-state actors impacts the so-called “new governance”— a […]
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Regional Cap-and-Trade Program to Bring “Fracking” States into 2015 Ozone Attainment
In 2015 the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency revised its National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS) for ozone from 75 ppb to 70 ppb. This increasingly stringent standard will test the […]
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Speech: Limiting Building Height: The Story of a Citizens Initiative to Preserve Mountain Vistas and a City’s Future
PROLOGUE This piece, a story that has long needed to be told in full, traces the evolution of the historic 1971 decision by the citizens of the City of Boulder, […]
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Rethinking Electric Vehicle Incentives
This Note analyzes whether policies designed to promote the use and adoption of electric vehicles serve two important values: (1) that a policy’s benefits should exceed its costs and (2) that […]
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All We Really Need to Know We Learned in Kindergarten: Share Everything (Agricultural Water Sharing to Meet Increasing Municipal Water Demands)
INTRODUCTION ♣[1]†With continuing population growth and a changing climate, Colorado’s finite water resources face unprecedented pressure. Current projections indicate that Colorado’s population will increase from the current 5.2 million […]
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Lessons from Cancer Alley: How the Clean Air Act Has Failed to Protect Public Health in Southern Louisiana
This Note discusses the history and development of Cancer Alley under the regulatory framework of the Clean Air Act, analyzing how industrial interests infiltrate the environmental regulation at the design, […]
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When the Fast Track Hits the Off Ramp: Renewable Energy Permitting and Legal Resistance on Western Public Lands
INTRODUCTION In recent years, the Bureau of Land Management (“BLM”) has attempted to institute a “Fast-Track” permitting process for renewable energy projects on public lands, which is supposed to […]
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Speech: Atmospheric Trust Litigation: Securing a Constitutional Right to a Stable Climate System
[1]*It is a privilege to be here in Boulder, which is a place I think of as a hub of climate action, with its young climate warriors, its renewable energy […]