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The Endangered Species Act and Private Property: A Matter of Timing and Location
(Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy, 1998)
This article examines some of the perverse consequences of the structure of the Endangered Species Act, namely that it deters property owners from conserving threatened species and lacks proactive measures.
Taking Adaptive Management Seriously: A Case Study of the Endangered Species Act
(Kansas Law Review, 2004)
If one compares the way in which the ESA was implemented in 1982 to the way it is today, the list of differences would far outweigh the similarities. Indeed, the ESA has been transformed so much through administrative ...
In Defense of Regulatory Peer Review
(Washington University Law Review, 2006)
The debate over application of peer review to the regulatory decisions of administrative agencies has heated up in the last year. Part of the larger and controversial sound science movement, mandating peer review for certain ...
The Battle Over Endangered Species Act Methodology
(Environmental Law, 2004)
The substantive contours of the Endangered Species Act (ESA) have been largely worked out for quite some time. Starting in the mid-1990s, however, opponents of Fish and Wildlife Service and National Marine Fisheries Service ...
Biodiversity Conservation and the Ever-Expanding Web of Federal Laws Regulating Nonfederal Lands: Time for Something Completely Different
(University of Colorado Law Review, 1995)
This article offers an early examination of the law and governance of biodiversity (circa 1995) through the lenses of the Endangered Species Act, Clean Water Act, and Coastal Zone Management. It suggests that true multi-scalar, ...
Who Needs Congress? An Agenda for Administrative Reform of the Endangered Species Act
(N.Y.U. Environmental Law Journal, 1998)
This article comprehensively examines the history and content of the numerous administrative reforms of the Endangered Species Act program carried out under the tenure of Department of the Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt. ...
The Endangered Species Act's Fall from Grace in the Supreme Court
(Harvard Environmental Law Review, 2012)
Thirty-five years ago, the Endangered Species Act ("ESA") had as auspicious a debut in the U.S. Supreme Court as any statute could hope for. In Tennessee Valley Authority v. Hill, a majority of the Court proclaimed that ...
Section 7(a)(1) of the "New" Endangered Species Act: Rediscovering and Redefining the Untapped Power of Federal Agencies' Duty to Conserve Species
(Environmental Law, 1995)
This article probes the history, meaning, and potential applications of section 7(a)(1) of the Endangered Species Act, which by its terms imposes a "duty to conserve" on all federal agencies. The article examines how ...
Harmonizing Commercial Wind Power and the Endangered Species Act Through Administrative Reform
(Vanderbilt Law Review, 2012)
This Article explores the intersection of utility-scale wind power development and the Endangered Species Act, which thus far has not been as happy a union as one might expect. Part I provides background on how the ESA and ...
Harmonizing Distributed Energy and the Endangered Species Act
(San Diego Journal of Climate and Energy Law, 2013)
This Article explores the intersection of utility-scale wind power development and the Endangered Species Act, which thus far has not been as happy a union as one might expect. Part I provides background on how the ESA and ...