Category: Printed
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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 […]
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Federal Power Act Limitations on FERC Dam Decommissioning Authority: Shielding Preexisting Licensees and Revisiting Trust Funds to Protect the Public Interest
INTRODUCTION Hydropower is one of humankind’s oldest sources of energy.[2] Civilizations from the ancient Mesopotamian region utilized dams in one form or another as early as 8,000 years ago.[3] More […]
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Speech: Climate Progress in the Energy Sector: Room for (Cautious) Optimism?
[1]*I want to join others in thanking Alice Madden, Shaun LaBarre, the Getches-Wilkinson Center and the sponsors for making this conference possible. It is just exactly the kind of conference […]
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Peace Like a River: Institutionalizing Cooperation Over Water Resources in the Jordan River Basin
I. Introduction In January 2008, United Nations (“UN”) Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon commented on the coincidence of water and conflict at the World Economic Forum. Pointing out that the […]
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Congress Resurrects a Native Harvest and Creates Potential for Conflict in Migratory Bird Management
ABSTRACT In 2014 Congress passed the Huna Tlingit Traditional Gull Egg Use Act. The Act reestablishes a native gull egg harvest that had been eliminated in the 1960s. The new […]