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Vindicating Public Environmental Interest: Defining the Role of Environmental Public Interest Litigation in China

Julie Rose

March 29th 2020

Chinese environmental public interest litigation has assumed increasing attention and significance in recent years. By simply granting standing to public authorities and environmental groups to challenge “acts of polluting or damaging the environment that have harmed the public interest,” the amended Civil Procedure Law of 2012 and Environmental Protection Law ...

Carbon Dioxide Removal after Paris

Julie Rose

March 29th 2020

Notwithstanding adoption of the Paris Agreement on climate change, mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions appears unlikely to achieve the stated goal of limiting the mean global temperature increase to 2°C. Under many scenarios, achieving this goal would require not only vigorous mitigation efforts, but also the deployment of carbon dioxide ...

Reform Incentives, Transform the Grid: Making Good on Hawai’i’s Renewable Energy Ambitions

Julie Rose

March 29th 2020

In 2008, Hawai‘i’s electric utilities and state government committed to transforming Hawai‘i into a world leader in the adoption of renewable energy. The characteristics of Hawai‘i’s electricity system—including high imported fossil fuel costs—appeared to make this project more technically feasible, economically attractive, and politically popular in Hawai‘i than in any ...

Defining the Role of Agriculture in Agricultural Conservation Easements

Julie Rose

March 29th 2020

Farmland preservation has become an important pursuit for those seeking to protect the working landscape. One of the most common approaches for securing this protection is through the targeted use of agricultural conservation easements, typically perpetual land use agreements designed to limit incompatible activities in order to preserve future agricultural ...

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