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Who\u27s Calling the Shots: Individual v. State: A Look inside the Exemption Laws and the Threats of Foregoing Vaccinations
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Daubert Debunked: A History of Legal Retrogression and the Need to Reassess Scientific Admissibility
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CAS Honors Symposium Program, Fall 2016
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Net Legal Power
No full textLaw will determine the future of the planet. Net metering, the regulatory mechanism employed by 88% of U.S. states to promote renewable power and to reduce carbon emissions from electricity production, is now legally challenged. The legality of recent carbon control policies is expected to head to the Supreme Court.
The law governing electric power, and electric power itself, is distinct from everything else. The physics of electricity do not align with the law. Electric power, alone among all forms of energy, is the only energy which cannot be stored: The supply of power produced must instantaneously second-by-second exactly match the demand for power, or the power grid collapses as it did in the eastern U.S. in 2003. Rapidly expanding use of intermittent net metered solar and wind sources pose a new concern for the maintenance of a reliable and stable power grid.
Well-established precedent requires equitable and precise allocation of the costs of every power transaction. Without states undertaking this cost analysis and setting rates, there is a missing legal link. Only two of the forty-four states that employ net metering of renewable power have done this analysis. Without doing so, the other forty-two states leave their primary climate change policies and renewable energy incentives vulnerable to challenge and reversal as soon as those states enact them.
This Article examines the legal and physical differences between electricity and everything else that the law addresses. This Article navigates the legal “trip wires” around power, dissecting the disparate renewable power net metering policies in 41 states. We “follow the money” to examine who directly benefits and who indirectly pays for net metering, as a matter of law, and how this affects this cutting edge of government policy. States are now challenged on their net metering policies.
Legal vulnerabilities in major policies require solutions: States can, but most haven’t yet taken the steps to, immunize their renewable energy programs against legal challenge. This is critical to meaningfully address climate change. This Article’s final sections map a legal solution and chart the missing legal link
When a State Does the Circuit : State Administrative Discretion at the Jurisdictional Precipice
Get PDFCalifornia raised its renewable energy requirement, already the most ambitious of all the contiguous 48 states, to require 50% of all electric power generated by 2030 to be generated from renewable energy. This now is the most aggressive renewable energy standard of any major economy in the world. California\u27s low carbon fuel standard, eventually upheld by the Ninth Circuit with a dissent, appears to be disconnected with the last half century of Supreme Court Commerce Clause jurisprudence. After this decision, as noted by a member of the Ninth Circuit, California may now be given free license to impose carbon tariffs on out-of-state import of wine, as well as food, air passengers, and trash. This article explores how California and other Western states within the Ninth Circuit now could enjoy liberal license on how they regulate carbon and out-of-state transport of goods into the state
Siting Technology, Land-Use Energized
No full textJurisdiction for the siting of electric power plants is vested in the fifty states, four territories, and thousands of local governments. Further complicating this scheme is federal government’s exclusive authority over certain transactions originating from these facilities. Against this backdrop of often divergent and conflicting laws, this article compiles a multijurisdictional review of the jurisdictional issues surrounding the regulation of electric power. Employing multiple state by state surveys, this paper compares electric power siting laws, the interactions between federal, state, and municipal authorities, and the mechanics of regulatory structures across the United States
