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- Charting a Better Course for the Colorado River: Identifying the Data and Concepts to Shape the Interim Guidelines RenegotiationThursday, June 6th and Friday, June 7th, 2019On June 6-7, 1869, John Wesley Powell’s expedition down the Colorado was
See the full white paper here: Energy Emergencies vs. Manufactured Crises: The Limits of Federal Authority to Disrupt Power Markets by Ari Peskoe and Sharon JacobsWe live in an age of governance by emergency. In February, President Trump declared a- Climate and Energy Law in the Trump AdministrationThursday, January 24, 2019Jody Freeman Harvard Law School, Archibald Cox Professor of Law Director, Environmental and Energy Law ProgramProfessor Freeman discusses the major policy reversals on
- For the past several decades, the United States has taken steps to develop more clean energy in the face of climate change, which has promoted developments in solar, wind, water, and geothermal power production. The Business Counsel for Sustainable
- The history of uranium extraction within Navajo Nation is fraught with environmental and cultural conflict and controversy. Thousands of Navajo men worked in the uranium mines from 1944 until 1989, and the largest spill of radioactive material
- For years, illegal deforestation and logging has consistently wiped out natural habitats and indigenous peoples’ communities, put various animals around the world in danger, and decreased the world’s oxygen levels. As noted in a report issued by the
- Cost-Nothing Analysis: Environmental Economics in the Age of TrumpProfessor Lisa Heinzerling, Georgetown Law[video:https://youtu.be/17HPDMO8IOw]The annual Distinguished Lecture Series is a cooperative venture between the Getches-Wilkinson Center (
- The last two decades marked the longest period of drought in the Colorado River’s recorded history, and water demands in the last decade exceeded available supply. With thirty-five to forty million people in the U.S. currently relying on water
- Low-income individuals can benefit the most from the bill savings from solar energy, yet have the least direct access to distributed solar energy, often at their own economic expense. Distributed solar energy rebates are funded by customers from