July/August 2014

In This Issue

Environment

When technology gives customers choices, what happens to traditional monopolies?

Scott Hempling

The emerging commercial viability of distributed energy technologies and retail choice continue to challenge the traditional vertically-integrated utility model.

Environment

The Columbia River Treaty at 50: Looking back, looking ahead

Sonya Baskerville, Charles R. Sensiba, and Gabriel Tabak

The U.S. and Canada revisit their 1964 agreement governing development and operation of hydropower and flood control resources in the Columbia River Basin.

Environment

Fugitive greenhouse gas emissions and Prevention of Significant Deterioration program applicability

Leslie Cook Wong

EPA’s Greenhouse Gas Rule has unintended consequences for landfills caused by fuzzy fugitive emissions policies and the imminent expiration of the biogenic deferral.

Environment

Never let a serious crisis go to waste? West Virginia decides to plug the hole in regulation of aboveground storage tanks

Joseph Jenkins

A leak from an aging aboveground storage tank contaminated the water of 300,000 West Virginians and forced a review of current regulations to prevent such an event in the future.

Environment

The Supreme Court decides rails to trails case: A new governmental attorney estoppel doctrine or a case of revisionist history?

Norman A. Dupont

Justice Sotomayor implicitly suggests the majority is guilty of revisionist history—a revisionist interpretation of a 70 year old case to suit current circumstances.

Environment

IN BRIEF

Theodore L. Garrett

A summary of recent environmental, energy, and resources decisions at the federal level.

Section News

Environment

Views from the Chair: Keep the focus on the practice

William L. Penny

The Section chair reflects on his theme for the year, “focus on the practice.”

Environment

People on the Move

Jim Arnold

Keep up with your fellow Section members’ moves.

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July/August 2014

Green infrastructure in cities: Expanding mandates under federal law﻿

In This Issue

When technology gives customers choices, what happens to traditional monopolies?﻿

The Columbia River Treaty at 50: Looking back, looking ahead﻿

Fugitive greenhouse gas emissions and Prevention of Significant Deterioration program applicability﻿

Never let a serious crisis go to waste? West Virginia decides to plug the hole in regulation of aboveground storage tanks

The Supreme Court decides rails to trails case: A new governmental attorney estoppel doctrine or a case of revisionist history?﻿

IN BRIEF﻿

Section News

Views from the Chair: Keep the focus on the practice﻿

People on the Move

Green infrastructure in cities: Expanding mandates under federal law

When technology gives customers choices, what happens to traditional monopolies?

The Columbia River Treaty at 50: Looking back, looking ahead

Fugitive greenhouse gas emissions and Prevention of Significant Deterioration program applicability

The Supreme Court decides rails to trails case: A new governmental attorney estoppel doctrine or a case of revisionist history?

IN BRIEF

Views from the Chair: Keep the focus on the practice