Publications & Documents

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)

CLEAR Student Associates write short papers exploring topics under the 2010 Festival of Legal Learning's Environmental Law Symposium's "A New, Progressive Environmental Law: What are the Signs?"

• Cracks in the Bridge to Clean Energy: The Natural Gas Rush and the Legal Status of Hydraulic Fracturing
  Jared Elosta
• A Greening Economy? The American Clean Energy and Security Act and Attempts to Build Clean Energy Industry
  Phillip H. Feagan
• Air Toxins and the Waxman-Markey Bill
  Amelia Thompson
• Carbon Taxing: An Alternative to the Cap and Trade Program Proposed in the Waxman-Markey Bill
  Joel White
• China in Copenhagen 2009
  Alice Chen Anderson
• Developments in Coal Ash Pond Regulation Since the December 22, 2008 Spill in Kingston, TN
  Adam Batenhorst
• Hazardous Exemptions: Review of Recent Changes to the Definition of Solid Waste
  Lauren Joy
• The Fight for Environmental Justice in New Hill, NC
  Christopher D. McEachran
• Applying Environmental Justice to Factory Farm Animals
  Elizabeth Overcash
• North Carolina's Wind Energy Facilities Bill: The Debate Continues Over the Future of Wind-Power Generation in the North Carolina Mountains
  David Boaz
• Exploring the Neuse River as a Public Trust Issue
  Patrick Hunter
• Delaying a Decision on the Future of North Carolina's Coast: The Sandbag Removal Moratorium and Terminal Groin Study
  S. Will Quick