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Proposed Statement of Principles for the Wyoming Bar Association and Wyoming Press Association
Siting Carbon Dioxide Pipelines
More than 5000 miles of highpressure pipelines carrying carbon dioxide ÔÇ£CO2ÔÇØ traverse the western and southern United States primarily connecting natural and anthropogenic sources of CO2 sources to mature oilfields for CO2 enhanced oil recovery ÔÇ£CO2EORÔÇØ The precise route of the pipelines may be impacted by a variety of factors under both state and federal law Like oil pipelines and electric transmission lines developers of CO2 pipelines site infrastructure according to state law Accordingly state law determines whether and under which circumstances CO2 pipelines may utilize eminent domain authority to acquire property along the pipeline route States principally provide pipelines with this authority under two public interest justifications the development of natural resources or constructing and making available public access infrastructure through the imposition of common carrier requirementsThis paper analyzes the adequacy of the current regulatory framework for siting CO2 pipelines with a goal towards building a CO2 pipeline network that is flexible enough to serve both CO2EOR and CCUS purpose
The Riccobono Seminar of Roman Law in America: The Lost Years
The Riccobono Seminar of Roman Law in America was the preeminent source of intellectual support for Romanists in the United States during the middle of the twentieth century 19301956 It was named in honor of the great Italian Romanist Salvatore Riccobono who was a visiting professor at the Catholic University of America CUA in 1929 His lectures at the CUA inspired American Romanists to create an organization that would foster the study and teaching of Roman law following his departure In the course of the Seminar\u27s existence many of the era\u27s greatest Roman law scholars both foreign and domestic gave presentations at the Riccobono Seminar The history of the Seminar after it came under the aegis of the CUA in 1935 has been readily available but that is not the case for the years 19301935 when it moved among several law schools in the District of Columbia This paper uses archival information and newspaper sources to describe the Seminar\u27s activities in those ÔÇ£lostÔÇØ year