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Last Entry: March 31, 2011 at 14:15:36

Ecology Law Quarterly announces the first issue of Ecology Law Currents

Posted on April 13, 2008
The first issue of Ecology Law Currents is featured on ELQ?s new website. Currents provides a timely forum for the varying perspectives of law professors, practitioners, policy makers, and students. Focusing on the role of nuclear power in the context...

The Official UN Explanation About Food Prices, Demand and Supply

Posted on April 11, 2008
InterPress News Service provided coverage of the news conference in New Delhi on Wednesday in which Jacques Diouf, director general of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), described spiralling food prices as an "emergency" that demanded concerted global...

Excellent Food Price Site: BBC of course

Posted on April 11, 2008
I am supposed to go to Haiti in the next month or so to work on my Village to Village water and health project. Haiti has long been a dangerous place for travel: 12 Americans were kidnapped (with accompanying violence)...

Bread

Posted on April 10, 2008
I went to purchase some bread for a student potluck last night. The store's bakery had posted apologies about the price of bread, citing the rise in wholesale wheat prices. I knew prices were going up -- to be expected...

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Mashey on the Campaign to Deny Anthropogenic Global Warming

Posted on April 10, 2008
Here's an updated copy of John Mashey's informal paper on the denialist campaign. Mashey on the Monckton, Schulte and Oreskes

Klamath River basin hydrology and ecology

Posted on April 07, 2008
Many of us teach some material concerning the Klamath River basin controversies. For those who don't, the Klamath River basin in southeastern Oregon and northern California has been a case study in conflict over competing uses for water, complete with...

Is There a Silver Lining for the Environment in the Economic Slowdown? -- Katrina Kuh

Posted on April 07, 2008
Weathering the storm of bad economic news over the past few months has been trying. I've found myself quickly reaching for the tuner nob at the first mention of "marketplace report" or anything akin thereto to avoid the latest in...

The Games EPA Plays

Posted on April 07, 2008
Regwatch reported on Friday that EPA is delaying greenhouse gas emission regulations by publishing an advance notice of proposed rulemaking: As Reg?Watch recently reported, EPA staff had drafted preliminary documents describing the dangers associated with greenhouse gas emissions...

Schneider Visit to Willamette Almost Live

Posted on March 26, 2008
Streaming video of Dr. Steve Schneider, former IPCC chair and co-recipient of the Nobel Prize with Al Gore, visit to Willamette earlier this month is available now. Video link Schneider is an extremely humorous and pragmatic guy -- who definitely...

Proposed Revision of Forest Service Mining Regulations

Posted on March 26, 2008
Yesterday, the U.S. Forest Service proposed revision of the bonding and environmental requirements for hard-rock mines operating within national forests or grasslands. Those regulations can be found at 73 FR 25694-01. The summary and proposed provisions are provided below...

Award Winning IUCNPaper: Validity of Actions taken by COPs organized under Multilateral Environmental Agreements

Posted on March 26, 2008
Louise Camenzuli from Sydney, Australia is the winner of the 2007 Alexandre Kiss Environmental Law Papers Award, sponsored by the IUCN Commission on Environmental Law. She won the prize for her paper on ?The development of international environmental law at...

Another one bits the dust: another antarctic ice shelf bites the dust

Posted on March 26, 2008
Generally, rock songs from the 60s, 70s, and 80s are the associations that I make in my mind as I read. The association here might be "another one bites the dust" as we're about to lose the 7th shelf in...

Giving Makes You Happy: Behavioral Economics Wins Again

Posted on March 25, 2008
Most of us were schooled in neoclassical economics, which makes a series of assumptions about the behavior of homo economis that behavioral economists and their colleagues in other disciplines dispute. These and other heterodox economic approaches are gradually creating much...

The Rankings Czar: US News and World Report

Posted on March 25, 2008
The ABA Journal offers a story on the rankings, which are due out on Friday. I still adhere to the position that no law professor or law school should respond to its questionnaires. It is high treason with respect to...

Today's AMS Seminar addresses relative contributions of GHG emissions, solar radiation, and cosmic rays to global warming

Posted on March 24, 2008
American Meteorological Society's Environmental Science Seminar Series Solar Radiation, Cosmic Rays and Greenhouse Gases: What's Driving Global Warming? What are the relative contributions from the sun, cosmic rays, and greenhouse gases, to the observed warming in the late 20th century...

Kansas Governor Kills Coal Fired Power Plant

Posted on March 24, 2008
Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius vetoed legislation that would have revoked the power of the Kansas environmental agency to reject air permits based on greenhouse gas emissions. The legislation was an attempt to reverse that agency's decision to deny a permit...

Huh?: The Bush Administration Response to Massachusetts v. EPA and the Rule of Law

Posted on March 24, 2008
It is quite fashionable for American politicians and pundits to suggest that somehow the United States has a unique role in spreading the rule of law throughout the world. The response of the Bush administration to the Supreme Court's decision...

The Big Tobacco Comparison

Posted on March 19, 2008
Welcome to Katrina Kuh from Hofstra Law who has agreed contribute to the blog. Here's her first piece on a topic that has crossed my mind more than once since ExxonMobil's funding of organizations who promote denialist global warming reports...

World Water Day 2008

Posted on March 17, 2008
World Water Day 2008 Please help spread the word about these events happening on or around World Water Day, March 22, 2008. Beginning Sunday, March 16 through Saturday, March 22, restaurants will invite their customers to donate a minimum of...

Drink Water for Life

Posted on March 17, 2008
This article is written by Denise Olivera, Columbia School of Journalism, about the Drink Water for Life Challenge originated by 1st Congregational Church, U.C.C. of Salem, Oregon. The article was covered by the Great Reporter newsservice link The congregation pledges...

Chinese Environmental Law Blog

Posted on March 17, 2008
Here's a new blog to keep track of, if you're interested in environmental law in China: China Environmental Law This spring break I'll be renovating the site and will provide full lists of blogs, environmental programs, etc. for your reading...

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Posted on March 16, 2008
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DOT Downplays Transportation Report on Climate Change Impacts and Prevents Press from Interviewing the Author

Posted on March 14, 2008
HT to Lance Olson Climate Change Yahoo group: The Government Accountability Project reported today on a major study on climate change impacts released on Wednesday by U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) and the U.S. Climate Change Science Program...

EPA Sets Primary Ozone Standard at 75 ppb Ignoring Scientific Advice; Sets Unlawful Secondary Standard Based on Bush's Personal Order

Posted on March 14, 2008
EPA's Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee recommended a primary health standard no higher than 70 ppb and EPA's Children's Health Protection Advisory Committee recommended the standard be set at 60 ppb because children are more vulnerable to air pollution...

The Buzz on Climate Legislation

Posted on March 10, 2008
According to E & E, Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) will send House Speaker Pelosi a report from the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming with legislative proposals to address climate change on or before the House Energy and...

Crude oil surpasses $ 108

Posted on March 10, 2008
Crude-oil futures surpassed $108 for the first time, before closing above $107 a barrel. The gloomy economic outlook in the United States increases the prospect that the Fed will cut interest rates again, creating an even weaker dollar. The euro...

Plug in to NRDC's Blog

Posted on March 07, 2008
There's a little something for everyone here -- but some of the most prominent environmental lawyers in the world are blogging here. NRDC Blog

The Disinformation Campaign Continues: Utilities Say EEI Exaggerates Costs to Address Climate Change

Posted on March 06, 2008
According to Greenwire, eight utility executives, including PG & E, FPL, and Entergy, wrote Edison Electric Institute seeking changes in EEI's report on the cost of implementing pending climate change legislative proposals. "It appears that EEI has been circulating this...

Loan Program for Rural Power Plants Suspended on Climate Change Grounds

Posted on March 05, 2008
HT Bill Buzbee on UO envlawprofessor list - from Greenwire: The federal government is suspending a major loan program for coal-fired power plants in rural communities, saying the uncertainties of climate change and rising construction costs make the loans too...

Pulitzer Prize Anyone??? Only if you write by March 12th

Posted on March 05, 2008
Well, no prize, but...You can become a Pulitzer Center Citizen Journalist!!! Pick an issue. Issues list "Should US environmental standards apply when multinational companies develop the petroleum resources of fragile ecosystems such as Peru's Amazon forest?" should be of particular...

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