Environmental Law articles from June 2007

Environmental Law archives from June 2007

The lawyer speaks of rivers.(Poem)
June 22, 2007... THE LAWYER SPEAKS OF RIVERS I waited, like the others, wondering what he would say. And then, he spoke of rivers! He spoke, not of the father of waters, the great Mississippi dividing the country in two,...

Emerging commons and tragic institutions.
June 22, 2007... I. INTRODUCTION II. CHALLENGES OF PROTECTING THE COMMONS A. Challenges Imbedded in the Traits era Commons B. Challenges of Convincing Commons Users to Cut Back C. Problems of Engineering Collective Action III....

Missing the link: the importance of keeping ecosystems intact and what the Endangered Species Act suggests we do about it.
June 22, 2007... I. INTRODUCTION II. BACKGROUND A. Listing Species Under the ESA B. Defining "Species" to Include "Distinct Population Segments" C. The DPS Policy III. SPECIES INTERACTIVITY AND ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONING A. While You...

Energy independence and global warming.
June 22, 2007... Policy making is often bedeviled by disconnects between public perceptions and reality. This problem is particularly acute today in the context of two public policy issues of central interest to readers of this journal: energy independence and...

Israeli-Palestinian water literature's misplaced dependence upon customary international law.
June 22, 2007... I. INTRODUCTION II. RELEVANT SOURCES OF INTERNATIONAL WATER LAW A. Principles of International Water Law B. Customary International Water Law 1. The Helsinki Rules (1966) 2. The Convention on the Law of the...

Defenders of Appalachia: the campaign to eliminate mountaintop removal coal mining and the role of Public Justice.
June 22, 2007... I. INTRODUCTION II. MOUNTAINTOP REMOVAL III. PUBLIC JUSTICE A. Background B. Public Justice Today C. Justice and the Environment IV. BIOGRAPHIES A. Jim Hecker B. Joe Lovett. V. LITIGATION...

2006 Ninth Circuit environmental review.
June 22, 2007... BROOK M. BRISSON California Sportsfishing Protection Alliance v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 472 F.3d 593 (9th Cir. 2006) Forest Guardians v. Johanns, 450 F.3d 455 (9th Cir. 2006) Kern CountyFarm Bureau v. Allen, 450 F.3d...

The quick and the dead: Earth Island v. Forest Service and the risk of forest service financial bias in post-fire logging adjudications.
June 22, 2007... I. INTRODUCTION II. THE ECOLOGICAL CONTEXT OF POST-FIRE LOGGING A. "Salvage Logging" B. Ecological Impacts of Post-Fire Logging 1. Soils 2. Snags 3. Watersheds III. FOREST SERVICE...

Questionable authority: a recent CEQ guidance memorandum.(Council on Environmental Quality)
June 22, 2007... I. INTRODUCTION II. THE CURRENT STATE OF AFFAIRS IN THE NINTH CIRCUIT A. Great Basin Mine Watch v. Hankins B. Northwest Environmental Advocates v. National Marine Fisheries Service III. HISTORICAL BACKDROP AND...