Home rule and natural gas development in New York: civil fracking rights

Rule 11 and Civil Rights Litigation

Toward a New Civil Rights Framework

The problem of racial discrimination has reached a point of equipoise. When one examines closely the lived lives of citizens of color across some of the most pertinent evaluative domains, one clearly finds that citizens of color are not enjoying the full benefits of American citizenship. African Americans, Latinos, and Native Americans lag behind Whites and sometimes Asian Americans on almost a...

The Future of Fracking: New Rules Target Air Emissions for Cleaner Natural Gas Production

Natural gas is lauded as a cleaner-burning fuel than either coal or oil, but getting the fuel out of the ground can be a dirty process, especially given the widespread adoption of the technology known as hydraulic fracturing (" fracking "). Concerns about toxic air emissions from previously unregulated fracking sites led to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announcement on 18 April 2012 ...

Shale gas and fracking: examining the evidence

The fact that the Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) states that natural gas power technology is a ‘bridge technology’ does not necessarily imply that shale gas will play any significant role in curbing GHG emissions. Indeed, we note that the median scenarios presented in AR5 for stabilising atmospheric concentrations between 430ppm and 530ppm ...

Civil commitment in New York City: an analysis of practice.