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- The Getches-Wilkinson Center is proud to announce the launch of a student-produced podcast. The first series, Food for His Children, will tell the story of how a salmon fishing rights case reflects Pacific Northwest Tribes’ struggle—over the course
- Oil and gas (O&G) production in Colorado is growing largely through development of wells using hydraulic fracturing (pumping millions of gallons of water, sand and chemicals under high pressure) coupled with horizontal drilling at distances
- Immensity is the abiding feature of the Colorado Plateau. During this year’s Advanced Natural 91´«Ă˝ Seminar, our group was struck again and again by the sheer magnitude of the region’s features. Sleeping Ute Mountain, Shiprock, and Bears Ears
- Most states have separate agencies responsible for environmental protection and energy planning, making collaboration between agencies a necessity to ensure that energy and environmental decisions do not undermine the achievement of one another’s
- Event video[video:https://youtu.be/fDAIFccOfoQ]Presentations Day 1-Session 1Gil Barth-Essential ScienceLeonard Konikow-Western GroundwaterSharon Megdal-The Governance ConundrumPresentations Day 1-Session 2Bonnie Colby-Groundwater TradingCleave
- “Out there is a different world, older and greater and deeper by far than ours, a world which surrounds and sustains the little world of men as sea and sky surround and sustain a ship. The shock of the real . . . For a few moments we discover that
- Despite President Trump’s promise to end “the war on coal,” the Hopi and Navajo Nations are facing the inevitable transition away from a coal-dependent economy due to the upcoming closure of the Navajo Generating Station (NGS) and Kayenta Mine. The
- This post originally appeared on the Harvard Law Review BlogThe modern administrative state was built on the promise of expertise. As James Landis argued in his New Deal-era defense of the bureaucracy, expert agencies are needed to effectively
- This post originally appeared on the Harvard Law Review BlogOn December 4, 2017, President Trump announced his long-anticipated decisions to shrink two major national monuments in southern Utah. Trump shrunk the Bears Ears National Monument