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 EnvironmentalLawProfBloghttp://feedburner.google.com Job Openings tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0167613b96b8970b 2012-01-28T10:39:52-05:00 2012-01-28T16:18:37Z 2012-01-28T15:39:52Z There are a variety of recently announced job openings that may be of interest: Executive Director of the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation Visiting Assistant Professor - UH Energy Law Scholar - Non-Tenure-Track at the University of Houston Visiting professor... Green Electric Power in a Carbon Constrained World tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0163003b112e970d 2012-01-27T13:55:43-05:00 2012-01-28T15:17:11Z 2012-01-27T18:55:43Z There are enough conferences every year that, if one attended them all, no other work would get done. That said, there is a particularly well put together conference coming up on Thursday, February 9. Electric Power in a Carbon Constrained... Green Air Quality Climate Change Current Affairs Economics Energy Land Use Law North America Sustainability US Local Environmental Law: Imposed Versus Proposed Exactions tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0168e625d380970c 2012-01-26T19:41:59-05:00 2012-01-27T00:41:59Z 2012-01-27T00:41:59Z Local governments routinely attach conditions, or “exactions,” to development permits in an effort to address the environmental and infrastructural impacts of individual projects. However, presumably to protect landowners from exactions that are either unrelated or disproportionate to the problems caused... Green President Obama's State of the Union Address, Energy, and Climate Change tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0168e61030a9970c 2012-01-25T10:56:27-05:00 2012-01-25T15:56:27Z 2012-01-25T15:56:27Z Last night, President Obama delivered his annual State of the Union Address. Like last year, he focused on the potential for unity over energy independence, transition to cleaner energy, and energy infrastructure rather than on addressing climate change. He continued... Green On a lighter note tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0167610097b0970b 2012-01-24T12:06:56-05:00 2012-01-24T17:06:56Z 2012-01-24T17:06:56Z With the start of the semester, time for doing "things" like taking an evening out for watching a movie has dwindled. However, just before the holiday season provided ample opportunity to watch movies. It was while watching the trailer for... Green The Nuclear Conundrum tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0163000b94ec970d 2012-01-24T11:55:54-05:00 2012-01-24T16:55:54Z 2012-01-24T16:55:54Z It has been nearly one year since a massive tsunami and earthquake shook Japan's nuclear plants. Up until that point nations seriously considered nuclear energy as a good alternative to meet growing energy demands and reduce GHG emissions. Government response... Green Current Affairs Economics Energy Inaugural Issue of the LSU Journal of Energy Law and Resources - Call for Papers tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0163000252ef970d 2012-01-23T16:00:37-05:00 2012-01-23T21:24:11Z 2012-01-23T21:00:37Z The LSU Law Center recently announced a new student-edited journal, the LSU Journal of Energy Law and Resources. Below please see a short description of the journal. You can learn more about the journal by visiting their website. The LSU... Green Villanova Environmental Law Journal Annual Symposium - Experts Examine New Fuel Economy Standards tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0168e5f7f06c970c 2012-01-23T15:19:43-05:00 2012-01-23T20:19:38Z 2012-01-23T20:19:43Z EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT Villanova Environmental Law Journal Annual Blank Rome LLP Symposium Feb. 11 Experts Examine New Fuel Economy Standards WHAT: The U.S. Department of Transportation, the Environmental Protection Agency and the White House recently announced an historic agreement with auto... Green In Case You Missed It - Week of January 15-21 tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef016760ef379e970b 2012-01-22T21:30:37-05:00 2012-01-23T02:33:19Z 2012-01-23T02:30:37Z * Does Congress have the authority to approve the Keystone Pipeline despite the Obama administration's disapproval? A new CRS report says yes - under Congressional authority to regulate foreign commerce. * Four Florida counties have decided to join forces to... Green New Editors! tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0162ffc9f0b0970d 2012-01-18T22:00:00-05:00 2012-01-19T03:00:00Z 2012-01-19T03:00:00Z Starting next week, a new set of editors will be joining this blog. Their work spans a broad range of environmental law topics, and we think you'll enjoy reading what they have to say. Here's a quick introduction: Deepa Badrinarayana... Green Putting the "Natural" Ecosystem Back in the South tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef016760a81db0970b 2012-01-16T22:50:16-05:00 2012-01-17T04:08:50Z 2012-01-17T03:50:16Z The Natural Resources Law & Policy book that I use challenges the class to consider "what is natural?" before embarking on the course. Is it "natural" to allow the Florida Panther population to genetically bottleneck and die out, or is... Green In Case You Missed It - Week of January 8-14 tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0168e58dd06b970c 2012-01-15T01:40:19-05:00 2012-01-15T06:40:19Z 2012-01-15T06:40:19Z The White House proposed moving the National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration into the Department of the Interior. A new study has offered a possible explanation of why the oil leaking from the Deepwater Horizon disaster dissipated so quickly. President Obama... Green Current Affairs ABA's 41st Annual Conference on Environmental Law tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0168e5790444970c 2012-01-13T12:13:26-05:00 2012-01-13T17:13:26Z 2012-01-13T17:13:26Z The ABA Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources (SEER) will host its 41st Annual Conference on Environmental Law this March 22-24 in Salt Lake City. If you have not been before, this is one of, if not the, premier environmental... Green Current Affairs Energy Land Use Law North America Sustainability Travel US Water Quality Water Resources These Are the Emitters in Your Neighborhood tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0162ff7318cc970d 2012-01-12T09:14:37-05:00 2012-01-12T14:14:37Z 2012-01-12T14:14:37Z EPA just released a new interactive web-based map showing the locations of major greenhouse gas emitters across the country. It's well worth checking out. You could easily fritter away half an hour playing with it. - Dave Owen Green Gearing Up for Spring Environmentally-Oriented Conferences--Calls for Papers tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0162ff72632d970d 2012-01-12T08:11:21-05:00 2012-01-12T13:11:21Z 2012-01-12T13:11:21Z One of the things I found daunting at first in the academy was figuring out to get to speak at conferences. I at first assumed that I just had to wait for invitations, and was a little sad when few... Green Sabbatical in Spain! tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0168e54b3e90970c 2012-01-10T07:47:16-05:00 2012-01-11T09:23:39Z 2012-01-10T12:47:16Z Greetings from Spain! I am here as a Fulbright scholar at the University of Granada Law School through June. Do you have a sabbatical coming up? Would you like to spend it abroad? The U.S. Fulbright Scholar Program sends about... Green Bottled Water Redux (Infographic) tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0168e52a373e970c 2012-01-09T13:00:00-05:00 2012-01-09T18:00:00Z 2012-01-09T18:00:00Z Previously on the blog I posed the question of whether bottling water was such a bad thing after all (see "Environmental Freakonomics: Bottling Water Not So Bad After All?"). Fast Company recently highlighted an infographic presenting some interesting facts addressing... Green In Case You Missed It - Week of January 1-7 tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0168e50579a0970c 2012-01-08T23:55:00-05:00 2012-01-09T04:55:00Z 2012-01-09T04:55:00Z - Chinese authorities agreed to release more detailed information on Beijing's air pollution. - Voters in Kivalina, Alaska decided to move their community's school away from the eroding coast. - An Ecuadorian court ratified an $18 billion judgment against Chevron,... Green Critical Habitat tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef016760045134970b 2012-01-05T09:53:56-05:00 2012-01-05T14:53:56Z 2012-01-05T14:53:56Z As a practitioner, and even in my first years as a professor, I never paid much attention to the Endangered Species Act’s prohibition on adverse modification of critical habitat. The ESA was important to my work in practice and then... Green Good news from the Brazilian Amazon tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef01675fd6c336970b 2012-01-03T16:00:00-05:00 2012-01-08T11:10:20Z 2012-01-03T21:00:00Z Judging from recently released data, Brazil seems to be gaining a foothold in reducing deforestation in the Amazon (see chart below). Forest loss in the year-long period from August 2010 through July 2011 was the lowest since annual recordkeeping began... Green