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Combatting Lake Invaders: A Proposal for Ballast Water Standards to Save the Great Lakes from Invasive Species 对抗湖泊入侵者:制定压载水标准以保护大湖免受入侵物种侵害的建议
4区 社会学 Q4 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES Pub Date : 2018-01-01 DOI: 10.15779/Z385X25C8H
K. Sinclair
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引用次数: 1
Expediting Infastructure Development without Conceding Reasoned Decision Making and Public Comment: Streamlining NEPA Compliance for Facility Upgrades and Expansions 在不放弃理性决策和公众意见的情况下加快基础设施发展:简化《国家环境法》对设施升级和扩建的遵守
4区 社会学 Q4 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES Pub Date : 2018-01-01 DOI: 10.15779/Z38BC3SX49
Maribeth Hunsinger
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引用次数: 0
"This Land Was Made for You and Me"*—And Them: Why and How the Department of the Interior Should Give Greater Consideration to the Gray Wolf's Historical Range 《这片土地是为你和我而生》——以及他们:内政部为什么以及如何更多地考虑灰狼的历史活动范围
4区 社会学 Q4 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES Pub Date : 2018-01-01 DOI: 10.15779/Z38V11VK7G
Amy Collier
Throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the gray wolf was systematically eradicated from most of the lower forty-eight states. A population of hundreds of thousands was whittled down to a few hundred, concentrated only in the woods of Minnesota and Isle Royale, Michigan. The wolf has rebounded, thanks to robust federal protection. But full recovery remains elusive—in part because of the federal government’s narrow expectations for recovery. In August 2017, the D.C. Circuit struck down a 2011 rule that removed the gray wolf from the endangered species list in the Western Great Lakes area. The court held that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service had impermissibly failed to consider how the loss of the gray wolf’s historical range affected the species’ overall survival outlook. This decision highlighted some long-recognized shortcomings of the Service’s interpretation of recovery under the Endangered Species Act, including its concentration on core populations to the detriment of peripheral ones. Focusing on the complex history of the gray wolf, this Note explores traditional justifications for species preservation, as well as justifications for a broader geographic recovery of a species. In doing so, it identifies a repertoire of principles that should inform future decisions about a species’ geographic restoration, and by reflecting on these principles, it argues for a more purposeful consideration of a species’ historical range.
在整个19世纪末和20世纪初,灰狼在美国48个州的大部分地区被系统地消灭了。成千上万的人口减少到几百人,只集中在明尼苏达州和密歇根州皇家岛的森林里。由于强有力的联邦保护,狼已经反弹。但全面复苏仍是可望而不可及的,部分原因在于联邦政府对复苏的预期过于狭隘。2017年8月,华盛顿特区巡回法院推翻了2011年的一项规定,该规定将灰狼从西部五大湖地区的濒危物种名单中删除。法院认为,美国鱼类和野生动物管理局没有考虑到灰狼历史活动范围的消失对该物种整体生存前景的影响,这是不允许的。这项决定突出了事务处根据《濒危物种法》解释恢复的一些长期公认的缺点,包括集中于核心种群而损害了外围种群。本报告以灰狼的复杂历史为重点,探讨了物种保护的传统理由,以及物种在更广泛的地理范围内恢复的理由。在此过程中,它确定了一系列原则,这些原则应该为未来关于物种地理恢复的决策提供信息,并通过反思这些原则,它主张对物种的历史范围进行更有目的的考虑。
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引用次数: 0
Part XII of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea and the Duty to Mitigate Against Climate Change: Making Out a Claim, Causation, and Related Issues 《联合国海洋法公约》和减缓气候变化义务第十二部分:提出主张、因果关系及有关问题
4区 社会学 Q4 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES Pub Date : 2018-01-01 DOI: 10.15779/Z38M32N965
Seokwoo Lee, Lowell B. Bautista
Within the current state of international jurisprudence, there is a growing recognition of the importance of ocean environmental protection. One of the most significant recent examples is the decision in the South China Sea Arbitration, which recognized the obligation of States to protect and preserve the marine environment in disputed territorial or maritime areas. Despite this overall trend, however, serious gaps in State practice remain. In particular, current research on State practice of national and regional marine pollution contingency planning in the Asia-Pacific reveals that there has been little regard displayed in the region for accommodating a proactive approach to marine environmental protection. The international community, particularly the States that are suffering the consequences of climate change and sea-level rise, is attempting to tackle the problem of climate change and to find ways to mitigate its damages. One suggestion has been to bring a legal claim before an international tribunal to commence climate change litigation. From the perspective of the current regime of international law, including the Law of the Sea and State responsibility, the feasibility and effectiveness of climate change litigation is highly questionable. This is largely due to the challenges of establishing causation and other related issues. An alternative suggestion is to use the legal mechanism of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, not to adjudicate the issue, but to seek the issuance of an advisory opinion on the legal question presented by climate change in light of international agreements related to the purposes of this Convention. The problem with such an advisory opinion, however, would be its potential for ineffectiveness due to its non-binding character. In conclusion, there is no single solution to resolve the issue of climate change. However, a better understanding of the linkages between Parties' obligations under relevant treaties such as the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the Paris Agreement, and the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, among others, may provide an additional impetus for States to take climate change seriously and increase efforts to negotiate additional agreements and implement them effectively.
在目前的国际判例中,人们越来越认识到海洋环境保护的重要性。最近最重要的例子之一是南海仲裁案的裁决,该裁决承认各国有义务保护和维护有争议领土或海洋地区的海洋环境。然而,尽管有这种总体趋势,国家实践中仍然存在严重差距。特别是,目前对亚太地区国家和区域海洋污染应急规划国家实践的研究表明,该地区很少考虑采取积极主动的办法来保护海洋环境。国际社会,特别是遭受气候变化和海平面上升后果的国家,正在努力解决气候变化问题,并设法减轻其损害。一种建议是向国际法庭提起法律诉讼,启动气候变化诉讼。从现行的国际法体系来看,包括《海洋法》和国家责任,气候变化诉讼的可行性和有效性是非常值得怀疑的。这主要是由于建立因果关系和其他相关问题的挑战。另一种建议是利用《联合国海洋法公约》的法律机制,不是对这个问题作出裁决,而是根据与《公约》宗旨有关的国际协定,寻求就气候变化所提出的法律问题发表咨询意见。但是,这种咨询意见的问题在于,由于其不具有约束力,它可能没有效力。总之,解决气候变化问题没有单一的解决办法。然而,更好地了解缔约方在《联合国气候变化框架公约》、《巴黎协定》和《联合国海洋法公约》等相关条约下的义务之间的联系,可能会为各国认真对待气候变化提供额外的动力,并加大努力谈判其他协议并有效实施这些协议。
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引用次数: 5
Oceans in Transition: Incorporating Climate-Change Impacts into Environmental Impact Assessment for Marine Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction 转型中的海洋:将气候变化影响纳入国家管辖范围以外海洋区域的环境影响评估
4区 社会学 Q4 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES Pub Date : 2018-01-01 DOI: 10.15779/Z38M61BQ0J
Robin Warner
The oceans and their biodiversity are coming under increasing threat from climate-change impacts including increasing water temperatures, deoxygenation, and ocean acidification. The adverse effects of climate change are exacerbating the stresses experienced by species, habitats, and ecosystems in all marine areas and diminishing the ecological services they provide. Identifying the nature and extent of climate-change impacts on marine biodiversity through environmental impact assessment and associated mitigation measures is a critical step towards lessening adverse impacts and stemming biodiversity loss. While legal and institutional frameworks for environmental impact assessment are well established for marine areas under national jurisdiction, collaborative structures and mechanisms for environmental impact assessment in areas beyond national jurisdiction are still fragmentary and underdeveloped. This Article reviews the existing international law and policy framework for environmental impact assessment in areas beyond national jurisdiction and discusses options for incorporating consideration of climatechange impacts into environmental impact assessment processes through a new international legally binding instrument for conservation and sustainable use of marine biodiversity in areas beyond national jurisdiction being developed through the United Nations General Assembly.
由于水温升高、脱氧和海洋酸化等气候变化影响,海洋及其生物多样性正面临越来越大的威胁。气候变化的不利影响加剧了所有海洋地区物种、栖息地和生态系统所承受的压力,并减少了它们提供的生态服务。通过环境影响评估和相关缓解措施,确定气候变化对海洋生物多样性影响的性质和程度,是减少不利影响和遏制生物多样性丧失的关键步骤。虽然在国家管辖的海洋地区进行环境影响评价的法律和体制框架已经建立,但在国家管辖以外地区进行环境影响评价的合作结构和机制仍然是零碎和不发达的。本文审查了在国家管辖范围以外地区进行环境影响评估的现有国际法和政策框架,并通过联合国大会正在制定的一项新的具有法律约束力的关于在国家管辖范围以外地区保护和可持续利用海洋生物多样性的国际文书,讨论了将气候变化影响纳入环境影响评估进程的各种选择。
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引用次数: 4
The Only Green That Matters is the Green in Your Pocket: Advocating for Renewable Energy in Red States 唯一重要的绿色是你口袋里的绿色:在红色州倡导可再生能源
4区 社会学 Q4 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES Pub Date : 2018-01-01 DOI: 10.15779/Z38RV0D120
Noah Guiney
Addressing the threat of climate change will require a large-scale transition from fossil fuel-generated power to renewable energy. However, climate change has been politicized in the United States to such an extent that many states’ lawmakers resist embracing wind and solar power for the simple reason that it is favored by liberals. Fortunately, there are now economic as well as environmental reasons why republican lawmakers should encourage solar and wind sectors in their states. This Note looks at how two traditionally “red” states—Texas and Arizona—have engaged with renewable energy. As this Note shows, Texas embraced wind power because it created jobs, improved reliability and lowered residents’ energy bills. In Arizona, despite the size of the solar industry in the state, solar power remains controversial, in large part because most of the power is exported to California, giving little direct benefit to ordinary Arizonans. The Note concludes by arguing that renewable energy advocates should focus on the economic good that the industry can do in states that are traditionally skeptical of climate change.
解决气候变化的威胁需要从化石燃料发电大规模过渡到可再生能源发电。然而,气候变化在美国已经被政治化到如此程度,以至于许多州的立法者拒绝接受风能和太阳能,原因很简单,因为它受到自由派的青睐。幸运的是,现在共和党议员应该在他们的州鼓励太阳能和风能产业,既有经济方面的原因,也有环境方面的原因。本文着眼于两个传统的“红色”州——德克萨斯州和亚利桑那州——是如何与可再生能源合作的。正如本文所示,德克萨斯州之所以接受风力发电,是因为它创造了就业机会,提高了可靠性,降低了居民的能源账单。在亚利桑那州,尽管该州的太阳能产业规模很大,但太阳能发电仍然存在争议,这在很大程度上是因为大部分电力都出口到加州,给普通亚利桑那州人带来的直接好处很少。报告最后指出,可再生能源的倡导者应该把重点放在该行业在传统上对气候变化持怀疑态度的州所能带来的经济效益上。
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引用次数: 1
Protecting Offshore Areas from Oil and Gas Leasing: Presidential Authority under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act and the Antiquities Act 保护近海地区不受石油和天然气租赁:根据《外大陆架土地法》和《古物法》的总统权力
4区 社会学 Q4 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES Pub Date : 2018-01-01 DOI: 10.15779/Z38XP6V365
R. Anderson
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引用次数: 1
Wildlife Issues are Local - So Why Isn't ESA Implementation? 野生动物问题是地方性的——为什么欧空局没有实施?
4区 社会学 Q4 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES Pub Date : 2017-12-17 DOI: 10.15779/Z38CZ3251H
Temple Stoellinger
In the forty-four years since President Nixon signed the Endangered Species Act (ESA), states have become increasingly frustrated by the lack of meaningful opportunities for involvement in the Act’s implementation. This frustration has led to a national discussion on ESA reform, a Republican priority supported by the bipartisan Western Governors’ Association and others. The frustration stems from being relegated to a post-listing back seat, despite state primacy in the management of imperiled species prior to a listing as threatened or endangered under the ESA. This frustration is well placed, as this is not the role Congress intended states to play when it passed the ESA in 1973. Instead, under the long-forgotten section 6(g)(2) of the ESA, Congress provided states with the authority to oversee the implementation of the ESA post-listing. This Article advocates for the utilization of this never-implemented authority to achieve non-legislative ESA reform. In reaching that conclusion, this Article provides a uniquely comprehensive review of the legislative and regulatory history of the ESA, providing a clear demonstration of Congress’s intent to create a cooperative federalism regime under the ESA and the regulatory agencies’ refusal to carry that intent forward.
自尼克松总统签署《濒危物种法案》(ESA)以来的44年里,由于缺乏参与该法案实施的有意义的机会,各州越来越感到沮丧。这种挫折导致了一场关于ESA改革的全国性讨论,这是共和党的优先事项,得到了两党西部州长协会和其他机构的支持。尽管根据ESA,在濒危物种被列为受威胁或濒危物种之前,国家对濒危物种的管理是首要的,但这种沮丧源于被降级到上市后的次要位置。这种挫败感是恰当的,因为这不是国会在1973年通过ESA时希望各州发挥的作用。相反,根据早已被遗忘的欧空局第6(g)(2)条,国会授权各州监督欧空局上市后的实施情况。本文主张利用这一从未实施的权力来实现欧空局的非立法改革。在得出这一结论的过程中,本文对欧空局的立法和监管历史进行了独特的全面回顾,清楚地展示了国会在欧空局下建立合作联邦制制度的意图,以及监管机构拒绝推进这一意图。
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Home Rule in an Era of Local Environmental Innovation 地方环境创新时代的自治
4区 社会学 Q4 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES Pub Date : 2017-12-15 DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.2916917
S. Fox
As 2016’s national election made clear, striking ideological differences between cities and their surrounding states exist in many parts of the country. One way this divide is manifesting itself is in state governments passing laws with the sole purpose of outlawing particular local conduct. For instance, recent state legislation has prohibited local governments from establishing a minimum wage, from prohibiting the use of plastic bags, and from protecting the rights of transgender individuals to use the bathroom of their identified gender. These state actions do not create substantive law; instead, they merely curtail the grant of authority—known, broadly speaking, as home rule—to municipalities.State override of local action in this way undermines the ability of local governments to address many kinds of harm. Local efforts to combat environmental issues seem particularly vulnerable to obstruction by state legislators. The trouble is, under traditional frameworks of state and local government law, this kind of targeted removal of local authority is likely justifiable. In consequence, legal scholarship on environmental localism has generally conceded failure within the home rule framework and looked only outside it for solutions to this problem. This Article explores whether acceptance of defeat in the face of state prohibitions on particular exercises of local environmental authority is warranted, and whether there is any path forward for local environmental policymaking within the traditional framework. Very generally, I propose that elements of environmental law—namely, state constitutional provisions and the public trust doctrine—may in fact offer a substantive basis for support of local authority in the face of targeted state removals of authority. By making these elements part of the home rule analysis, courts may be able to provide some protection against targeted removals of local authority.
正如2016年的全国大选所表明的那样,在美国的许多地方,城市和周边州之间存在着显著的意识形态差异。这种分歧的一种表现方式是州政府通过法律,其唯一目的是禁止特定的地方行为。例如,最近的州立法禁止地方政府制定最低工资标准,禁止使用塑料袋,禁止保护变性人使用其性别认同的浴室的权利。这些国家行为不构成实体法;相反,他们只是减少了对市政当局的权力授予——广义上说,就是所谓的地方自治。国家以这种方式凌驾于地方行动之上,削弱了地方政府解决多种危害的能力。地方对抗环境问题的努力似乎特别容易受到州议员的阻挠。问题是,在州和地方政府法律的传统框架下,这种有针对性地取消地方权力的做法可能是合理的。因此,关于环境地方主义的法律学者普遍承认在地方自治框架内失败,而只在它之外寻找解决这个问题的办法。本文探讨的是,面对国家对地方环境部门特定行为的禁令,是否有理由接受失败,以及在传统框架内,地方环境政策制定是否有任何前进的道路。总的来说,我认为环境法的要素——即州宪法条款和公共信托原则——实际上可能为地方当局在面临有针对性的州撤销权力时提供实质性的支持基础。通过将这些要素纳入地方自治分析,法院可能能够提供一些保护,防止有针对性地取消地方权力。
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Adequate Agency Action? How Procedural Trends in Environmental Citizen Suit Litigation Prompt a Reconsideration of Deference and Presumptions of Diligence 足够的机构行动?环境公民诉讼的程序走向如何促使对顺从与勤勉推定的反思
4区 社会学 Q4 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES Pub Date : 2017-10-03 DOI: 10.15779/Z38Z02Z861
Rachel Ryan
In 2016, the Third Circuit affirmed the dismissal of a nonprofit group’s environmental citizen suit because it found that a government agency was already diligently prosecuting the defendant. The decision provided an important procedural precedent because it changed the standard by which agency prosecution is reviewed during a motion to dismiss. The case highlights the public health and safety concerns created when government enforcement fails to induce industry to comply with pollution laws. It also highlights the obstacles that citizen suits must overcome when attempting to fill the gaps with private enforcement efforts. This Note examines the Third Circuit’s procedural ruling, and argues that courts should end the practice of presuming the diligence of agency enforcement during a motion to dismiss; instead, courts should make nonbiased, context-specific reviews of the adequacy of agency enforcement. This process will ensure that citizen suits are able to fulfill their role of stepping in when agency enforcement fails to protect public health and safety.
2016年,第三巡回法院确认驳回了一个非营利组织的环境公民诉讼,因为它发现一个政府机构已经在努力起诉被告。该决定提供了一个重要的程序先例,因为它改变了在驳回动议期间审查机构起诉的标准。这起案件突显了当政府执法部门未能促使行业遵守污染法时,公众对健康和安全的担忧。它还强调了公民诉讼在试图通过私人执法努力填补空白时必须克服的障碍。本说明审查了第三巡回法院的程序性裁决,并认为法院应终止在驳回动议时推定机构执法尽职的做法;相反,法院应该对机构执行的充分性进行无偏见的、针对具体情况的审查。这一过程将确保公民诉讼能够在机构执法未能保护公众健康和安全时发挥其介入作用。
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