Publications & Documents

CLEAR Student Associates write short papers exploring topics for the 2012 Festival of Legal Learning's Environmental Law Symposium

The Intersection between Energy Law and Environmental Law

• Marta Orpiszewska: Keystone XL: Pipeline to Nowhere
• Kelly Anderson: Solar Power Installations on Contaminated Lands: Community Benefits and Regulatory Considerations
• Katherine Street: Electric System Reliability and the Effects of Recent EPA RICE Regulations
• Siobhan Mukerji: A Case Study of Separation of Powers in the Energy Law Context
• Matthew Pierce: The Effect of the Utility MACT on the Duke and Progress Energy Merger
• Jack Lyman: We ARRA Gittin' the Smart Grid Here Soon, Y'all: The Stimulus Act and Duke Energy's Smart Grid Development in North Carolina

Hydraulic Fracturing and North Carolina

• Gabriell Vires: The FRAC Act: Policy Concerns and Potential Impacts of Congress' Proposed Amendments to the Safe Drinking Water Act
• Jonathan Ambrose: The Doctrine of Preemption and Local Hydraulic Fracturing Regulation in West Virginia: A Narrow Legal Issue with Broad Policy Implications
• Blakely Whilden: Mineral Rights in Central Appalachia: A Brief History of the Broad Form Deed in Kentucky and Tennessee
• Catherine Clodfelter: The Practice of Drafting and Interpreting Oil and Gas Leases: Common Problems from Experienced Oil and Gas States

Energy and Catastrophes

• Caroline Cress: Republic of Ecuador v. Chevron Corporation: Obstacles to U.S. Recognition of a Foreign Judgment in a Landmark Environmental Justice Case
• Catherine Phillips: Liability Caps After Deepwater Horizon
• Carla Gray: Proposed Changes to Federal Coal Ash Regulations Following the 2008 Kingston Fossil Plant Coal Ash Spill
• Ramona Baker: Empty Nets: Finding Compensation for Commercial Fishermen after the Deepwater Horizon Disaster
• Samantha Surles: The Fukushima Nuclear Incident and U.S. Nuclear Policy

Global Warming and the Energy-Environment Connections of an Emerging Legal Regime

• Tyler Burgess: California Global Warming Solutions Act: Challenges in Implementing the Comprehensive Global Climate Change Statute
• Doug Debaugh: American Electric Power v. Connecticut: Assessing the Values and Drawbacks of the Supreme Court's Approach to Climate Change Litigation
• Holly Bannerman: Atmospheric Litigation: The Public Trust Approach to Climate Change

CLEAR commissions report on the role of non-profits in long term disaster recovery.

• Jeffrey Stys, Strategic Decision Associates, Non-profit Involvement in Disaster Response and Recovery

CLEAR Research Fellow Analyzes the Potential for Parametric Insurance Products to Serve as a Model for a Proposed U.S. Catastrophe Risk Consortium and as a Catalyst for Disaster Mitigation and Climate Adaptation

• Financial Adaptation Through Parametric Insurance Products: Utilizing the Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility as a Model for a Proposed United States National Catastrophe Risk Consortium
  Daniel E. Peterson

CLEAR Research Fellows Prepare Case Study Analyzing Best Methods of Insuring Against Avoided Deforestation Offset reversal

• Ken Allinson, Matthew Dunand, P. J. Puryear, and Jeremy Tarr (White Paper)