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sustainable development. While the author often uses the language of sustainable development, the book would turn sustainability …
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sustainability, depending on how it is handled. Sustainable development is a useful evaluative framework for shale gas development … answers to, the question of whether, or how, shale gas production can help accelerate the transition to sustainability …
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This is an introduction to the special issue on environmental laws and sustainability of the on-line peer review … journal, Sustainability. In this introduction, we attempt to synthesize key lessons from the issue’s ten substantive articles … sustainability, the centrality of sub-national governments in achieving sustainability, the background law of unsustainable …
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The article explores what we can learn about sustainable development, and the progress the United States has already made or not made, by looking at citizen suits under United States environmental law. The article focuses on four aspects of citizen suits: the manner in which they allow access to...
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The first part of this Article suggests a framework for understanding Article I, Section 27 of the Pennsylvania constitution. This second and final part of the Article outlines ways in which that framework should be applied.The Article argues that the environmental rights and public trust...
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This article explains why industrial waste that is not legally hazardous must be given greater attention and regulatory oversight. Industrial waste (including coal ash) may represent as much as 94 percent of municipal, hazardous, and industrial wastes combined. The article explores the existing...
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Future of Energy: Law and Policy for Sustainability (Edward Elgar 2016), explains sustainable development as an essential … development sustainable. As this chapter also explains, it is not enough to make some progress toward sustainability. Key further … questions are whether shale gas can help accelerate the transition to sustainability and, if so, how. These are the questions …
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development, Shale Gas and the Future of Energy: Law and Policy for Sustainability (Edward Elgar 2016). It describes the growing … been little analysis of the relationship between unconventional shale gas and sustainability. The introduction then … from public health, the social sciences, economics, and other disciplines. Each chapter addresses (1) what sustainability …
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The Pennsylvania Supreme Court's decision in Robinson Township v. Commonwealth, 803 A.3d 901 (Dec. 19, 2013) has prompted enormous interest in the history and text of Article I, Section 27 of the Pennsylvania Constitution. This legislative history is a response to that interest.Amendments to the...
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Sustainable development has its origins in the conservation and environmental movements in the United States and other countries, and in the laws that were adopted because of those movements. Lawyers in the public and private sectors drafted these laws and worked with clients to implement them....
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