CLEE Faculty and Staff Publications
CLEE’s 2014 Annual Report
January 2015
Accelerating Cost-Effective Green Stormwater Infrastructure: Learning from Local Implementation
Authors: Nell Green Nylen and Michael Kiparsky
Publication Date: February 2015
Key Words: Green Stormwater, Wheeler Institute for Water Law & Policy, Stormwater Management, Monitoring, and Affected Pollutants.
Moving Dollars: Aligning Transportation Spending With California’s Environmental Goals
Author: Ethan Elkind
Publication Date: February 2015
This policy paper is the fifteenth in a series of reports on how climate change will create opportunities for specific sectors of the business community and how policy-makers can facilitate those opportunities.
Ex Parte Requirements at the California Public Utilities Commission: A Comparative Analysis and Recommended Changes
Authors: Steven Weissman and Deborah Behles
Publication Date: January 2015
This paper addresses private communications called ex parte contacts in the California Public Utility Commission (“CPUC”) and discusses how to restore the integrity of the CPUC’s process by changing the applicable rules.
Knowledge Is Power: How Improved Energy Data Access Can Bolster Clean Energy Technologies & Save Money
Author: Ethan Elkind
Publication Date: January 2015
This policy paper is the fourteenth in a series of reports on how climate change will create opportunities for specific sectors of the business community and how policy-makers can facilitate those opportunities.
Reuse and Repower: How to Save Money and Clean the Grid with Second-Life Electric Vehicle Batteries
Author: Ethan Elkind
Publication Date: September 2014
This policy paper is the thirteenth in a series of reports on how climate change will create opportunities for specific sectors of the business community and how policy-makers can facilitate those opportunities.
Addressing Climate Change Without Legislation: Volume 3: USDA
Authors: Romany Webb and Steven Weissman
Publication Date: August 2014
Addressing Climate Change Without Legislation: Volume 2: FERC
Authors: Steven Weissman and Romany Webb
Publication Date: July 2014
Addressing Climate Change Without Legislation: Volume 1: DOI
Authors: Romany Webb and Steven Weissman
Publication Date: June 2014
Renewable Energy Beyond 2020: Next Steps for California
Author: Ethan Elkind
Publication Date: November 2013
Electric Vehicle Paradise: How Hawaii can Lead the World in Deployment
Author: Ethan Elkind
Publication Date: September 2013
A High Speed Foundation: How to Build a Better California Around High Speed Rail
Author: Ethan Elkind
Publication Date: August 2013
Regulation of Hydraulic Fracturing in California: A Wastewater and Water Quality Perspective
Authors: Michael Kiparsky and Jayni Foley Hein
Publication Date: April 2013
Electric Drive by ‘25: How California Can Catalyze Mass Adoption of Electric Vehicles by 2025
Author: Ethan Elkind
Publication Date: September 2012
Legal Analysis of Barriers to Adaption for California’s Water Sector
Authors: Michael Hanemann, Deborah Lambe and Daniel Farber
Publication Date: July 2012
California’s Transition to Local Renewable Energy: 12,000 Megawatts by 2020
Authors: Jeffrey Russell and Steven Weissman
Publication Date: June 2012
California’s Cap-and-Trade Auction Proceeds: Taxes, Fees, or Something Else?
Authors: Deborah Lambe and Daniel Farber
Publication Date: May 2012
Trees and Power Lines: Minimizing Conflicts between Electric Power Infrastructure and the Urban Forest
Authors: William Brock Most and Steven Weissman
Publication Date: March 2012
The Statewide Benefits of Net-Metering in California & the Consequences of Changes to the Program
Authors: Steven Weissman and Nathaniel Johnson
Publication Date: February 2012
Center for Progressive Reform, Making Good Use of Adaptive Management
Author: Holly Doremus
Publication Date: 2011
2020 Strategic Analysis of Energy Storage in California
Authors: Jessica Intrator, Ethan Elkind, Andris Abele, Steven Weissman, Morgan Sawchuk, and Emily Bartlett
Publication Date: November 2011
Harvesting Clean Energy: How California Can Deploy Large-Scale Renewable Energy Projects on Appropriate Farmland
Author: Ethan Elkind
Publication Date: October 2011
Emissions Trading and Social Justice
Author: Daniel Farber
Publication Date: August 2011
Habitat Conservation Plans and Climate Change: Recommendations for Policy
Authors: Melinda Taylor and Holly Doremus
Publication Date: July 2011
Habitat Conservation Plans and Climate Change: Recommendations for Policy
Authors: Holly Doremus and Taylor
Publication Date: July 2011
All Aboard: How California Can Increase Investments in Public Transit
Author: Ethan Elkind
Publication Date: July 2011
Drops of Energy: Conserving Urban Water in California to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Author: Ethan Elkind
Publication Date: May 2011
Bringing the California Dream into the Twenty-First Century: Strategies for Sustainable Consumption and Communities
Author: Daniel Farber
Publication Date: November 2010
California at the Crossroads: Proposition 23, AB 32, and Climate Change
Authors: Ethan Elkind, Daniel Farber, Richard Frank, Michael Hanemann, Daniel Kammen, Anna Kantenbacher, and Steven Weissman
Publication Date: September 2010
Saving Energy: How California Can Launch a Statewide Retrofit Program for Existing Residences and Small Businesses
Author: Ethan Elkind
Publication Date: May 2010
California’s Proposition 16: An Analysis
Author: Steven Weissman
Publication Date: May 2010
Room to Grow: How California Agriculture Can Help Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Author: Ethan Elkind
Publication Date: March 2010
In Our Backyard: How to Increase Renewable Energy Production on Big Buildings and Other Local Spaces
Author: Ethan Elkind
Publication Date: December 2009
Removing the Roadblocks: How to Make Sustainable Development Happen Now
Author: Ethan Elkind
Publication Date: August 2009
Current Policy and Legal Issues Affecting Recreational Use of Public Lands in the American West
Author: Richard Frank
Publication Date: July 2009
Addressing Regulatory Barriers to Construction of Biomass Facilities in California
Author: Steven Weissman
Publication Date: July 2009
California’s Propositions 98 & 99: A Comparative Analysis
Author: Richard Frank
Publication Date: May 2008
California’s Proposition 7: An Analysis
Author: Steven Weissman
Publication Date: October 2008
Comments from Environmental Law Professors, Re: Proposed Rule – Interagency Cooperation under the Endangered Species Act
Author: Eric Biber
Publication Date: August 2008
Railtown: The Fight for L.A.’s Metro Rail System and the Future of the City
Author: Ethan Elkind
Publication Date: 2014
Environmental Policy Law: Problems, Cases, and Readings, 6th ed.
Authors: Holly Doremus, Lin, and Rosenberg
Publication Date: 2012
Environmental Litigation in China: A Study in Political Ambivalence
Author: Rachel Stern
Publication Date: 2013
The Oceans in The Nuclear Age: Legacies and Risks
Authors: David Caron and Harry Scheiber
Publication Date: 2010
Environmental Law in a Nutshell, 8th ed.
Author: Daniel Farber
Publication Date: 2010
Disaster Law
Authors: Daniel Farber and Michael Fauré
Publication Date: 2010
Environmental Restitution, Volume 2 of Designing Compensation After Upheaval
Authors: Cymie Payne and Peter S. Sand
Publication Date: 2010
Chapter 1 = Overview
Chapter 6 = Oversight of Environmental Restoration
Disaster Law and Policy, 2ed.
Author: Daniel Farber et al.
Publication Date: 2009
Cases and Materials on Environmental Law, 8ed.
Authors: Daniel Farber, Jody Freeman and Ann Carlson
Publication Date: 2009
Environmental Policy Law: Problems Cases and Readings, 5th ed.
Author: Holly Doremus et al.
Publication Date: 2008
Water War in the Klamath Basin: Macho Law, Combat Biology, and Dirty Politics
Authors: Holly Doremus and Dan Tarlock
Publication Date: 2008
State must spend smarter on roads and ‘fix it first’
Author: Ethan Elkind
Publication Date: February 19, 2015
Source: The Sacramento Bee
Driving development of transit-oriented districts
Authors: F. Noel Perry and Ethan Elkind
Publication Date: October 8, 2015
Source: San Diego Tribune
Viewpoints: Even without Tesla, electric car batteries can boost state
Author: Ethan Elkind
Publication Date: September 17, 2014
Source: The Sacramento Bee
California’s slow ride to new transit
Author: Ethan Elkind
Publication Date: August 6, 2014
Source: SF Gate
Oil and rail – a dangerous mix, Los Angeles Times
Author: Jayni Foley Hein
Publication Date: May 20, 2014
Source: Berkeley Law
Rail alone can’t reinvent L.A., Los Angeles Times
Author: Ethan Elkind
Publication Date: January 27, 2014
Source: Los Angeles Times
Making sure renewable energy produces clean energy
Author: Ethan Elkind
Publication Date: November 24, 2013
Source: The Sacramento Bee
‘Green’ paving helps the bay, human health
Authors: Michael Kiparsky and Max Gomberg
Publication Date: November 12, 2013
Source: San Francisco Chronicle
Fracking in State Needs Close Oversight
Authors: Jayni Foley Hein and Michael Kiparsky
Publication Date: May 12, 2013
Source: San Francisco Chronicle
The Law’s Great Strength, Room for Debate on Saving Species as the Climate Changes
Author: Holly Doremus
Publication Date: April 22, 2011
Source: New York Times
Delinquent on Climate Change and Clean Energy
Authors: Ethan Elkind, Fannie and Freddie
Publication Date: June 17, 2010
Source: San Jose Mercury News
Gulf Oil Spill: Obama’s Regulatory Response Falls Short
Authors: Eric Biber and Holly Doremus
Publication Date: May 20, 2010
Source: Los Angeles Times
Backyard Renewables op-ed, California Energy Circuit
Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 3-4
Authors: Ethan Elkind and Steve Weissman
Publication Date: January 15, 2010
The Clean Energy Potential in our Backyard
Authors: Ethan Elkind and Nancy Skinner
Publication Date: December 9, 2009
Source: San Francisco Chronicle, A-16
Walk this Way – Urge ‘Sustainable Development
Authors: Ethan Elkind and Jared Huffman
Publication Date: August 31, 2009
Source: San Francisco Chronicle, E-5
Don’t hamstring the Endangered Species Act
Author: Eric Biber
Publication Date: April 15, 2009
Source: SF Chronicle
Let’s Ensure Energy Efficiency is Also Socially Equitable
Authors: Michelle Wilde Anderson and Steven Weissman
Publication Date: January 9, 2009
Source: San Jose Mercury News
Free-Willy-Nilly: What Does the Supreme Court Ruling on Navy Sonar Mean for the Whales?
Author: Holly Doremus
Publication Date: Nov. 14, 2008
Source: slate.com
A Riparian Conservation Network for Ecosystem Resilience
Author: Alexander K. Fremier
Publication Date: November, 29 2015
Source: Biological Conservation, 191
Unpacking EME Homer: Cost, Proportionality, and Emissions Reductions
Author: Daniel A. Farber
Publication Date: 2015
Beyond User Acceptance: A Legitimacy Framework for Potable Water Reuse in California, Environmental Science & Technology
Authors: Sasha Harris-Lovett, Christian Binz, David L. Sedlak, Michael Kiparsky and Bernhard Truffer
Publication Date: June 1, 2015
The Innovation Deficit in Urban Water: The Need for an Integrated Perspective on Institutions, Organizations, and Technology
Authors: Michael Kiparsky, David L. Sedlak, Barton H. Thompson, Jr., and Bernhard Truffer
Publication Date: 2013
Source: Environmental Engineering Science, 30(8): 395-408.
Effective Governance for Multi-Jurisdictional, Multi-Sector Climate Adaptation
Authors: Steven Weissman, Subin Varghese, and Zachary Wood
Publication Date: April 2013
Can the Clean Water Act Succeed as an Ecosystem Protection Law?
Authors: Holly Doremus and Tarlock
Publication Date: 2013
Source: G.W. J. Energy & Envtl. L.
Why International Catch Shares Won’t Save Ocean Biodiversity, Michigan Journal of Environmental and Administrative Law
Author: Holly Doremus
Publication Date: 2013
Climate and Water: Knowledge of Impacts to Action on Adaptation
Authors: Michael Kiparsky, Anita Milman, and Sebastian Vicuna
Publication Date: 2012
Source: Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 37: 163-194
The BP Blowout and the Social and Environmental Erosion of the Louisiana Coast
Author: Dan Farber
Publication Date: 2012
Source: Minn. J. of L., Sci. & Tech. 37
Climate Justice
Author: Dan Farber
Publication Date: 2012
Source: 110 Mich. L. Rev. 985
Managed Relocation: Integrating the Scientific, Regulatory and Ethical Challenges
Author: Schwartz et al.
Publication Date: 2012
Source: 62 BioScience 732-743
Foreword to the 2012 Annual Review
Authors: Robert Infelise and Holly Doremus
Publication Date: 2012
Source: 39 Ecology Law Quarterly 239
Amplifying Silence: Uncertainty and Control Parables in Contemporary China (with Jonathan Hassid)
Author: Rachel Stern
Publication Date: 2012
Source: Comparative Political Studies
Politics at the Boundary: Mixed Signals and the Chinese State
Author: Rachel Stern and Kevin J. O’Brien
Publication Date: September 15, 2011
Source: Modern China
A Fatal Loss of Balance: Dred Scott Revisited
Author: Dan Farber
Publication Date: 2011
Source: 39 Pepperdine L. Rev. 13
Symposium Introduction: Navigating the Intersection of Environmental Law and Disaster Law
Author: Dan Farber
Publication Date: 2011
Source: BYU L. Rev. 1783
Issues of Scale in Climate Governance, in Dryzek, Norgaard, and Schlosberg
Author: Dan Farber
Publication Date: 2011
Source; Oxford Handbook of Climate Change and Society
Clean Technology: Challenges for the Legal System and Legal Education
Author: Dan Farber
Publication Date: 2011
Source: Korea Legislation Research Inst.
State Climate-Change regulation: Will It Survive the Federal Challenge?
Author: Dan Farber
Publication Date: 2011
Source: Engel and Rider, Navigating Climate Change Policy
Climate Change and the evolution of Property Rights
Author: Holly Doremus
Publication Date: 2011
Source: U.C. Irvine L. Rev. 1091-1123
Through Another’s Eyes: Getting the Benefit of Outside Perspectives in Environmental Review
Author: Holly Doremus
Publication Date: 2011
Source: 38 B.C. Envtl. Aff. L. Rev. 245-278
Adaptive Management as an Information Problem
Author: Holly Doremus
Publication Date: 2011
Source: 89 N. C. L. Rev. 1455-1498
From Dispute to Decision: Suing Polluters in China
Author: Rachel Stern
Publication Date: 2011
Source: The China Quarterly
The Challenge of Climate Change Adaptation: Learning from National Planning Efforts in Britain, China, and the USA
Author: Daniel Farber
Publication Date: 2011
Source: Journal of Environmental Law
Climate Change and Arctic Governance: Three Images of a Changing Arctic
Authors: David Caron, Davor Vidas and Peter Johan Schei, eds., Martinus Nijhof
Publication Date: 2011
Source: The World Ocean in Globalization: Challenges and Responses 155-164
Negotiating Our Future with the Oceans
Authors: David Caron, Pierre Jacquet, Rajendra K. Pachauri and Laurence Tubiana
Publication Date: 2011
Source: A Planet for Life – Oceans: The New Frontier 25-34
The Profound Significance of the UNCC for the Environment
Authors: David Caron, Cymie R. Payne and Peter H. Sand
Publication Date: 2011
Source: Gulf War Reparations and the UN Compensation Commission: Environmental Liability 265- 275
A Typical Day in Environmental Suits
Author: Daniel Farber
Publication Date: 2011
Source: Environmental Forum
Taking Legal Realism Offshore: The Contributions of Joseph Walter Bingham to American Jurisprudence and the Reform of Modern Ocean Law
Author: Harry N. Scheiber
Publication Date: 2011
Source: Law Society, and History, ed. R.W. Gordon and M. J. Horwitz 337-363
Effective Renewable Energy Policy: Leave it to the States?
Author: Steven Weissman
Publication Date: 2011
Source: 3 San Diego J. Climate & Energy L. 345
Adapting to Climate Change Through Law that Bends Without Breaking
Author: Holly Doremus
Publication Date: 2011
Source: San Diego Journal of Climate and Energy Law 45-84
The Persistent Problem of Standing in Environmental Law
Author: Holly Doremus
Publication Date: 2010
Source: Environmental Law Reporter 10956-57
The Endangered Species Act: Static Law Meets Dynamic World
Author: Holly Doremus
Publication Date: 2010
Source: Wash. U. J. L. & Pol’y 175-235
Reassessing Conservation Goals in a Changing Climate
Authors: Holly Doremus, Camacho, McLachlan, and Minteer
Publication Date: Summer 2010
Source: Issues in Science and Technology 21-26.
On the Frontlines: Making Decisions
Author: Rachel Stern
Publication Date: 2010
Source: Chinese Civil Environmental Lawsuits, Law & Policy
Mapped Out of Local Democracy
Author: Michelle Wilde Anderson
Publication Date: 2010
Source: Stan. L. Rev. 931
Officious Intermeddlers or Citizen Experts? Petitions and Public Production of Information
Authors: Eric Biber and Berry Brosi
Publication Date: 2010
Source: Environmental Law, 58 UCLA L. Rev.
Introductory Remarks: New Challenges — Environmental Marine Environments and Biodiversity
Authors: David Caron, Myron H. Nordquist, Tomas H. Heidar and John Norton Moore
Publication Date: 2010
Source: Changes in the Arctic Environment and the Law of the Sea 319-322
The Oceans in the Nuclear Age: Impacts, Observations and the Agenda Ahead
Authors: David Caron and Harry N. Scheiber
Publication Date: 2010
Source: The Oceans in the Nuclea Age: Legacies and Risks 515-534
The Law of the Sea
Author: David Caron
Publication Date: 2010
Source: The International Encyclopedia of Peace 603-605
Lots of Science, Not Much Law: Why Knowledge Has Not (Yet) Been Power Over Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Author: Holly Doremus
Publication Date: 2010
Source: William H. Rodgers & Michael Robinson-Dorn
Water Law 103: Water Federalism
Author: Holly Doremus
Publication Date: 2010
Source: ABA 29th Annual Water Law Conference
Reassessing Conservation Goals in a Changing Climate
Authors: Holly Doremus, Alejandro Camacho, Jason S. McLachlan and Ben A. Minteer
Publication Date: 2010
Source: Issues in Science and Technology
The Clean Air Act as a Template for Climate Change Legislation
Authors: Holly Doremus and Michael Hanemann
Publication Date:
Source: Edella Schlager et al., Climate Change and Federalism
Foreword to the Annual Review
Authors: Holly Doremus and Bob Infelise
Publication Date: 2010
Source: Ecology L.Q.
Issues of Scale in Climate Governance
Author: Daniel Farber
Publication Date: 2010
Source: Oxford Handbook on Climate Change and Society
Lessons from the UNCC for Climate Compensation
Author: Daniel Farber
Publication Date: 2010
Source: Environmental Restitution, Volume 2 Of Designing Compensation After Upheaval
Uncertainty
Author: Daniel Farber
Publication Date: 2010
Source: Geo. L.J.2010
Pulp Mills on the River Uruguay: The International Court of Justice Recognizes Environmental Impact Assessment as a Duty under International Law
Author: Cymie Payne
Publication Date: 2010
Source: Am. Soc. Int’l L. Insights
The Accretion/Avulsion Puzzle: Its Past Revealed, Its Future Proposed
Author; Joe Sax
Publication Date: Summer 2010
Source: Tulane Env.L.J. 305
Some Unorthodox Thoughts About Rising Sea Levels, Beach Erosion and Property Rights
Author: Joe Sax
Publication Date: Spring 2010
Source: Vt.J.Env. L. 641
Ownership, Property and Sustainability
Author: Joe Sax
Publication Date: 2010
Source: The Wallace Stegner Lecture, University of Utah
Land Use Regulation: Time to Think About Fairness
Author: Joe Sax
Publication Date: 2010
Source: Nat.Res.J.
Fisheries Policy and the Problem of Instituting Sustainable Management: The Case of Occupied Japan
Authors: Harry Scheiber and Benjamin Jones
Publication Date: 2010
Source: Strengthening Post-Conflict Peace-Building Through Natural Resources Management
Economic Uses of the Oceans: Past Trends and the Challenges Ahead
Author: Harry Scheiber
Publication Date: 2010
Source: The World Ocean in Globalization
Legalism, Geopolitics, and Morality — Perspectives from Law and History on War Guilt and the Dokdo Maritime Boundary Controversy
Author: Harry Scheiber
Publication Date: 2010
Source: Dokdo: Historical Appraisal and International Justice
The California Public Utility Commission’s Pilot Program to Explore the Nexus of Energy Efficiency and Water Conservation
Author: Steven Weissman
Publication Date: 2010
Source: Pac. McGeorge Global Bus. & Dev. L.J. 257
Between State and Local Government: A Response to Professor Reynolds
Author: Michelle Anderson
Publication Date: 2009
Source: Denv. U.L. Rev. 1303
Foreword to 2009 Annual Review of Environmental and Natural Resource Law
Authors: Holly Doremus and Robert Infelise
Publication Date: 2009
Source: Ecology L.Q. 201
Restoring Public Trust in the Public Lands: An Agenda for the New Administration
Authors: Eric Biber, Holly Doremus, Dan Farber, Rick Frank, and Joe Sax
Publication Date: 2009
Source: Ecology Law Currents 159 (online version of Ecology Law Quarterly)
Climate Change, Causation, and Delayed Harm
Author: Eric Biber
Publication Date: 2009
Source: Hofstra L. Rev. 975