Thursday, October 14, 2010

Recent Law Review Articles -- October 2010

AARHUS CONVENTION.
Toth, Bende. Public participation and democracy in practice—Aarhus Convention principles as democratic institution building in the developing world. 30 J. Land, Res. & Envtl. L. 295-330 (2010).

ADMINISTRATIVE LAW.
Note. Justifying the Chevron doctrine: insights from the rule of lenity. (Chevron U.S.A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., 467 U.S. 837, 1984.) 123 Harv. L. Rev. 2043-2064 (2010).

AGRICULTURE.
Harris, Sunni R. Comment. Green v. Alpharma, Inc.: the casual connection between the use of growth hormones in chicken feed and cancer and its impact on the agricultural industry. (Green v. Alpharma, Inc., 284 S.W.3d 29, 2008.) 2 Ky. J. Equine, Agri., & Nat. Resources L. 261-269 (2009-2010).

ANIMAL LAW.
Widener, Michael N. Collective bargaining as a dispute-reduction vehicle accommodating contrary animal welfare agendas. 2 Ky. J. Equine, Agri., & Nat. Resources L. 191-218 (2009-2010).

ARCTIC.
Dresser, Sara J. Note. Safeguarding the Arctic from accidental oil pollution: the need for a binding, region-specific shipping regime. 16 Sw. J. Int’l L. 507-550 (2010).

BIODIVERSITY.
Morrefield, Michael A. Note. Have the sons disobeyed their fathers? The Massachusetts’ standing analysis after ... (Center for Biological Diversity v. United States Department of Interior, 563 F.3d 466, 2009) 17 Mo. Envtl. L. & Pol’y Rev. 391-414 (2010).

CERCLA.
Green, Shelby D. Understanding CERCLA through Webster's New World Dictionary and state common law: forestalling the federalization of property law. 44 New Eng. L. Rev. 835-868 (2010).

Guo, Robert M. Note. Reasonable bases for apportioning harm under CERCLA. 37 Ecology L.Q. 317-352 (2010).

Schreck, Addison J. Comment. Empaneling the peers of polluters: obtaining a jury trial under the OPA and CERCLA as explained in ... (United States v. Viking Res., Inc., 607 F. Supp. 2d 808, 2009.) 2 Ky. J. Equine, Agri., & Nat. Resources L. 293-303 (2009-2010).

CHINA.
Gradijan, Francis. Note. Dispute resolution and power permitting in China. 5 Tex. J. Oil Gas & Energy L. 357-398 (2009-2010).

CLEAN AIR ACT.
Elliott, E. Donald. Lessons from implementing the 1990 CAA Amendments. 40 Envtl. L. Rep. News & Analysis 10592-10596 (2010).

Raftery, Christopher. Note. Restoring Webster’s definition of “best” under the Clean Air Act. 37 Ecology L.Q. 595-624 (2010).

CLEAN WATER ACT.
Moreno, Robert B. Note. Filling the regulatory gap: a proposal for restructuring the Clean Water Act’s two-permit system. 37 Ecology L.Q. 285-316 (2010).

CLIMATE CHANGE.
Camacho, Alejandro E. Assisted migration: redefining nature and natural resource law under climate change. 27 Yale J. on Reg. 171-255 (2010).

Gerrard, Michael B. Defining the challenge in implementing climate change policy. 40 Envtl. L. Rep. News & Analysis 10579-10584 (2010).

Silveira da Rocha Sampaio, Rômulo. Regulating climate change risk at the local level—the Denver experience: greenprint or greenwash? 17 Mo. Envtl. L. & Pol’y Rev. 356-390 (2010).

Stone, Chad. Addressing the impact of climate change legislation on low-income households. 40 Envtl. L. Rep. News & Analysis 10555-10561 (2010).

Three Degrees Conference on the Law of Climate Change and Human Rights. Introduction by Jennifer K. Barcelos, Gregory A. Hicks and Jennifer Marlow; articles by Randall S. Abate, Deepa Badrinarayana and Amy Sinden. 85 Wash. L. Rev. 193-353 (2010).

Vandenbergh, Michael P. and Mark A. Cohen. Climate change governance: boundaries and leakage. 18 N.Y.U. Envtl. L.J. 221-292 (2010).

COURTS.
Johnson, Stephen M. The Roberts Court and the environment. 37 B.C. Envtl. Aff. L. Rev. 317-363 (2010).

DAMS.
Pottenger, Samantha G. Comment. Biodiversity conservation v. hydropower dams: can saving the fish save the Mekong River Basin? 22 Pac. McGeorge Global Bus. & Dev. L.J. 111-133 (2009).

ELECTRICAL UTILITIES.
Multistate Decision Making for Renewable Energy and Transmission: Spotlight on Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming. Articles by David J. Hurlbut, Ashley C. Brown, Jim Rossi and Robin Kundis Craig. 81 U. Colo. L. Rev. 677-832 (2010).

Quinn, Elias L. and Adam L. Reed. Envisioning the smart grid: network architecture, information control, and the public policy balancing act. 81 U. Colo. L. Rev. 833-892 (2010).

EMISSIONS TRADING.
Danish, Kyle and Megan Ceronsky. International offsets and U.S. climate legislation. 40 Envtl. L. Rep. News & Analysis 10610-10615 (2010).

Forrister, Dirk. U.S. climate change policy implementation: effective use of carbon markets for cost savings. 40 Envtl. L. Rep. News & Analysis 10585-10591 (2010).

ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT.
Kamel, Alexandra. Note. Size, biology, and culture: persistence as an indicator of significant portions of range under the Endangered Species Act. 37 Ecology L.Q. 525-560 (2010).

Lum, Katy. Note. One fish, two fish: suggestions for the treatment of hatchery fish under the Endangered Species Act. 37 Ecology L.Q. 561-594 (2010).

Middleton, Brandon M. Restoring tradition: the inapplicability of TVA v. Hill’s Endangered Species Act injunctive relief standard to preliminary injunctive relief of non-federal actors. 17 Mo. Envtl. L. & Pol’y Rev. 318-355 (2010).

Scaccia, Brian. Note. “Taking” a different tack on just compensation claims arising out of the Endangered Species Act. 37 Ecology L.Q. 655-682 (2010).

Schiff, Damien M. and Joshua P. Thompson. The distinct population segment provision of the Endangered Species Act and the lack thereof in the California Endangered Species Act. 30 J. Land, Res. & Envtl. L. 267-294 (2010).

Spjute, Robert Tee. Note. Weathering the storm: finding safe harbors in ESA controversy. 30 J. Land, Res. & Envtl. L. 331-355 (2010).

ENERGY INDUSTRY.
Cox, Seth. A regulatory reinterpretation to blow away dirty energy? 17 Mo. Envtl. L. & Pol’y Rev. 258-317 (2010).

Sieck, Daniel R. Note. Confronting the obsolescing bargain: transacting around political risk in developing and transitioning economies through renewable energy foreign direct investment. 33 Suffolk Transnat’l L. Rev. 319-345 (2010).

ENERGY LAW.
Recent developments in Texas, United States, and international energy law. 5 Tex. J. Oil Gas & Energy L. 399-451 (2009-2010).

ENERGY POLICY.
Conlan, James P. "O, for a muse of fire": energy law as federal ceremony. 5 Envtl. & Energy L. & Pol'y J. 1-59 (2010).

Genaw, Jillian L. Note. Offshore drilling in the United States and the expansion of Cuba’s oil program: a discussion of environmental policy. 20 Ind. Int’l & Comp. L. Rev. 47-77 (2010).

Odom, Olivia. Note. Energy v. water. 37 Ecology L.Q. 353-380 (2010).

ENVIRONMENTAL LAW.
Environmental law updates. 17 Mo. Envtl. L. & Pol’y Rev. 472-491 (2010).

Recent developments. In the Congress. 40 Envtl. L. Rep. News & Analysis 10616-10618 (2010).

Recent developments. In the courts. 40 Envtl. L. Rep. News & Analysis 10618-10620 (2010).

Recent developments. In the federal agencies. 40 Envtl. L. Rep. News & Analysis 10620-10624 (2010).

FEDERALISM.
Salkin, Patricia E. Cooperative federalism and climate change: new meaning to “think globally—act locally.” 40 Envtl. L. Rep. News & Analysis 10562-10571 (2010).

GREAT LAKES.
The Common Cause Agenda in the Great Lakes—The Intersection of Canada-United States Trade, Energy, Environment, and Society in the Great Lakes Basin. Dianne Anderson, session chair; Mark Shanahan, speaker. 34 Can.-U.S. L.J. 347-374 (2010).

Stack, Nicholas T. Note. Great Lakes Compact and an Ohio constitutional amendment: local protectionism and regional cooperation. 37 B.C. Envtl. Aff. L. Rev. 493-522 (2010).

GREENHOUSE GASES.
Davis, Margaret S. Recent development. Uncertainty in science and policy: calculating the net climate benefit of forestry-based offsets. 11 N.C. J.L. & Tech. 319-349 (2010).

Horne, Jennifer Skougard. Note. Getting from here to there: devising an optimal regulatory model for CO2 transport in a new carbon capture and sequestration industry. 30 J. Land, Res. & Envtl. L. 357-398 (2010).

Vandenbergh, Michael P., et al. Implementing the behavioral wedge: designing and adopting effective carbon emissions reduction programs. 40 Envtl. L. Rep. News & Analysis 10547-10554 (2010).

HEALTH
Wagner, Wendy, Elizabeth Fisher and Pasky Pascual. Misunderstanding models in environmental and public health regulation. 18 N.Y.U. Envtl. L.J. 293-356 (2010).

HIGHWAYS.
Iaione, Christian. The tragedy of urban roads: saving cities from choking, calling on citizens to combat climate change. 37 Fordham Urb. L.J. 889-951 (2010).

HISTORIC BUILDINGS.
Monteith, Emily. Comment. Lost in translation: discerning the international equivalent of the National Register of Historic Places. 59 DePaul L. Rev. 1017-1051 (2010).

HOUSING.
Dator, Mariel S. Note. Green building regulations: extending mandates to the residential sector. 37 B.C. Envtl. Aff. L. Rev. 393-424 (2010).

INTERNATIONAL TRADE.
Jaeger, Kathleen. Environmental claims under the Alien Tort Statute. 28 Berkeley J. Int’l L. 519-536 (2010).

KYOTO.
Pillai, Bharathi. Note. Moving forward to 2012: an evaluation of the clean development mechanism. 18 N.Y.U. Envtl. L.J. 357-411 (2010).

LAND USE.
Crow, Adrianne C. Note. Developing community gardens: removing barriers to improve our society. 2 Ky. J. Equine, Agri., & Nat. Resources L. 219-234 (2009-2010).

MARINE RESOURCES.
McCarty, Richard T. Note. Winter v. NRDC: the Navy, submarines, active sonar, and whales—an analysis of the Ninth Circuit review and the Roberts Court extension of the military deference doctrine. (Winter v. Natural Res. Def. Council, 129 S. Ct. 365, 2008.) 47 Hous. L. Rev. 489-527 (2010).

NATURAL RESOURCES.
Natural Resources and Environmental Law Issue. Foreword by Zachary P. Mountin; articles by David J. Hurlbut, Ashley C. Brown, Jim Rossi, Robin Kundis Craig, Elias L. Quinn and Adam L. Reed; comment by Kelly Crandall. 81 U. Colo. L. Rev. 677-958 (2010).

NEPA.
Lopez, Amanda. Note. NEPA in the post-9/11 world. 37 Ecology L.Q. 423-449 (2010).

Smith, Thomas C. Note. Terrorist attacks & NEPA: the Third Circuit creates a split in authority. 17 Mo. Envtl. L. & Pol’y Rev. 415-435 (2010).

NUCLEAR ENERGY.
Murphy, Patrick J. Gone fission: federal preemption and the resurgence of the nuclear industry (the one that almost got away). 82 Temp. L. Rev. 863-889 (2009).

OUTER SPACE.
Meyer, Zach. Comment. Private commercialization of space in an international regime: a proposal for a space district. 30 Nw. J. Int’l L. & Bus. 241-261 (2010).

PESTICIDES.
Cook, Kara. Note. The middle ground of pesticide regulation: why EPA should use a watershed-based permitting scheme in its new aquatic pesticides rule. 37 Ecology L.Q. 451-486 (2010).

PETROLEUM INDUSTRY.
‘Wokoro, J. Nna Emeka. Beyond petroleum production to community development: international oil companies as proxy governments. 5 Tex. J. Oil Gas & Energy L. 323-356 (2009-2010).

PUBLIC TRUST.
Donahue, Debra L. Trampling the public trust. 37 B.C. Envtl. Aff. L. Rev. 257-316 (2010).

Emerging Legal Issues in the Great Lakes Such as the Public Trust Doctrine, Subterranean Rights and Municipal Regulatory Arrangements. Kendra Fogarty, session chair; David Brooks, Chris A. Shafer and David Ullrich, speakers. 34 Can.-U.S. L.J. 279-319 (2010).

Spiegel, Danielle. Note. Can the public trust doctrine save western groundwater? 18 N.Y.U. Envtl. L.J. 412-453 (2010).

Stoner, Ivan M. Comment. Leading a judge to water: in search of a more fully formed Washington public trust doctrine. 85 Wash. L. Rev. 391-423 (2010).

PUBLIC LANDS.
Gerson, Zachary H. The unrealized authority of the Fish and Wildlife Service to protect national wildlife refuges from surface disturbance due to private mineral rights. 29 Stan. Envtl. L.J. 181-245 (2010).

Hofman, Danielle. Note. The road to nowhere: the Ninth Circuit upholds nation-wide protection of inventoried roadless areas in National Forests. 17 Mo. Envtl. L. & Pol’y Rev. 454-471 (2010).

Lee, Michelle Fon Anne. Note. Surviving ... (Summers v. Earth Island Inst., 129 S. Ct. 1142, 2009.) 37 Ecology L.Q. 381-422 (2010).

Voicu, Monica. Note. At a dead end: the need for congressional direction in the roadless area management debate. 37 Ecology L.Q. 487-523 (2010).

RENEWABLE RESOURCES.
Crandall, Kelly. Comment. Trust and the green consumer: the fight for accountability in renewable energy credits. 81 U. Colo. L. Rev. 893-958 (2010).

SCIENCE.
Gershonowitz, Aaron. The role of science in environmental litigation: courts give deference to agency experts except when they don’t. 39 Sw. L. Rev. 233-264 (2009).

Joly, Julie Lurman, Joel Reynolds and Martin Robards. Recognizing when the “best scientific data available” isn’t. 29 Stan. Envtl. L.J. 247-282 (2010).

STATE AND LOCAL LAW.
Dernbach, John C., Robert B. McKinstry Jr. and Thomas D. Peterson. Making the states full partners in a national climate change effort: a necessary element for sustainable economic development. 40 Envtl. L. Rep. News & Analysis 10597-10609 (2010).

Leslie, Derek. Comment. Federal preemption in Metro Taxicab Board of Trade v. City of New York: a red light for local green laws? (Metro Taxicab Bd. of Trade v. City of New York, 633 F. Supp. 2d 83, 2009.) 2 Ky. J. Equine, Agri., & Nat. Resources L. 283-292 (2009-2010).

TAXATION.
Humphrey, Douglas M. Note. The “interior” revenue service: the Tax Code as a vehicle for third-party enforcement of conservation easements. 37 B.C. Envtl. Aff. L. Rev. 425-461 (2010).

TRAILS ACT.
Hearne, Mark F., II, Lindsay Brinton and Meghan Largent. The Trails Act: railroading property owners and taxpayers for more than a quarter century. 45 Real Prop. Tr. & Est. L.J. 115-178 (2010).

TRANSNATIONAL WATERWAYS.
Canada-United States Relations from the International Boundary Waters Treaty, the Auto Pact, the Free Trade Agreement, the North American Free Trade Agreement, the Security and Prosperity Partnership, and Beyond: Lessons Learned. David Crane, session chair; James Blanchard, Michael Kergin and Jessica LeCroy, speakers. 34 Can.-U.S. L.J. 165-192 (2010).

Cosens, Barbara. Transboundary river governance in the face of uncertainty: resilience theory and the Columbia River Treaty. 30 J. Land, Res. & Envtl. L. 229-265 (2010).

TRANSPORTATION.
Martella, Roger R., Jr.. Climate change legislation and regulation: impacts on transportation and manufacturing. 40 Envtl. L. Rep. News & Analysis 10572-10578 (2010).

URBAN ENVIRONMENT.
Davis, Steven M. The politics of urban natural areas management at the local level: a case study. 2 Ky. J. Equine, Agri., & Nat. Resources L. 127-155 (2009-2010).

WATER LAW.
Goeringer, L. Paul. A practitioner’s guide to the Oklahoma Groundwater Act: how to dip your bread into the gravy while it is still hot. 2 Ky. J. Equine, Agri., & Nat. Resources L. 157-190 (2009-2010).

Johnson, Nathan C. Comment. Protecting our water compacts: the looming threat of unilateral congressional interaction. 2010 Wis. L. Rev. 875-905.

Witherspoon, Travis. Recent development. Into the well: desired future conditions and the emergence of groundwater as the new senior water right. 5 Envtl. & Energy L. & Pol'y J. 166-182 (2010).

WATER RESOURCES.
Adams, Jessica. One little word can make all the difference: literal interpretation leads to lake destruction. 17 Mo. Envtl. L. & Pol’y Rev. 436-453 (2010).

ZONING.
Botwinick, Dina, Jennifer Effron and John Huang. Saving mom and pop: zoning and legislating for small and local business retention. 18 J.L. & Pol’y 607-653 (2010).

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